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Mining in Australia has long been a significant primary sector industry and contributor to the Australian economy by providing export income, royalty payments and employment. Historically, mining booms have also encouraged population growth via immigration to Australia , particularly the gold rushes of the 1850s.
The Bald Hill Lithium and Tantalum Mine is a lithium mine in Australia. It was operated previously as a tantalum mine by Haddington International Resources. [1] The mine comprises approximately 774 square kilometres in Western Australia's Eastern Goldfields Coolgardie municipal area.
The mine was part of the sale of its assets by OZ Minerals to China Minmetals, majority-owned by the Chinese state, but was blocked by the Australian Government, which cited national security concerns since Prominent Hill was within a sensitive military area. Subsequently, the sale of the other OZ Minerals mines went ahead after Prominent Hill ...
Concluded in 2013, the deal was to extend to the completion of mining at Spinifex Ridge, with a final payment in the range of A$3 million due upon this. As part of this agreement, Moly Mines accepted that it could potentially owe money to Mineral Resources, depending on the amount and quality of the ore mined.
The Mount Whaleback mine, officially the Newman West operation, [1] is an iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, six kilometres west of Newman. [ 2 ] The mine is majority-owned (85 percent) [ 3 ] and operated by BHP , and is one of five iron ore mines the company operates in the Pilbara.
The Murrin Murrin Mine is a major nickel-cobalt mining operation being conducted in the North Eastern Goldfields, approximately 45 km east of Leonora, Western Australia. ...
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Gold mines in the Mid West region. The Jundee mine was opened in 1995, originally as an open pit operation and, from 1997, also as an underground mine. [2]Originally, the mine was owned to 51% by Great Central Mines, which acquired the remaining 49% in early 1995 for US$89 million, alongside 30% of the Bronzewing Gold Mine.