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The following companies operated copper mines in Western Australia in 2022–23, according to the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety.To qualify for the department's official list of principal mining projects an operation has to either had mineral sales valued at more than $5 million, or, for operations where such figures are not reported, had a minimum of 50 employees: [26 ...
Golden Grove currently consists of two operations that are 3 km apart, the Gossan Hill underground mine and the Scuddles underground mine, which both produce zinc, copper, lead, silver and gold. [5] The Gossan Hill deposit was discovered in 1971, and the Scuddles deposit was discovered in 1979.
Pages in category "Copper mines in Australia" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Burra Burra ...
The open pit extracts copper oxide ore. The underground mine reaches a deeper copper sulphide ore. [2] The Nifty copper resource was discovered in 1981 by Western Mining Corporation and mining commenced in 1993. Nifty was purchased by Straits Resources in 1998, Aditya Birla Minerals in March 2003 then by Metals X in August 2016. [2]
Production trends in the top five copper-producing countries, 1950-2012. This is a list of countries by mined copper production. Copper ore can be exported to be smelted so that a nation's smelter production of copper can differ greatly from its mined production. See: List of countries by copper smelter production.
The Eloise Copper Mine is a copper mine located in north west Queensland Australia, 60 kilometres (37 mi) southeast of Cloncurry and 50 kilometres (31 mi) of McKinlay, in the vicinity of Mount Isa. The deposit was discovered in 1987, the mine has operated since 1996, [ 1 ] and was on care and maintenance after 2008.
Straits Resources Limited, after closure of the Girilambone Copper Mine in 2001–02, investigated the feasibility of translocating the solvent extraction and electrowinning plant from New South Wales to Whim Creek to set up a large scale open cut oxide copper SX-EW heap leach operation. Operations commenced in 2003, with pre-stripping of the ...
Zinc – Australia was third to China and Peru in zinc production in 2019, producing 1.3 million tonnes, 10% of world production. [42] Coal – Australia is the world's largest exporter of coal and fourth largest producer of coal behind China, USA and India. [43] Oil shale – Australia has the sixth largest defined oil shale resources. [44]