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Balama mine

Balama mine, Mozambique. Producing, open pit, mining graphite (natural).

Why Balama is famous

Balama in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, is a large natural graphite mine. It produced 67 kt of graphite in 2025 and 35 kt in 2024, in a campaign-mode restart.1,2,3

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What kind of deposit

Metamorphic graphite (flake, amorphous and vein)

Balama today

Where graphite (natural) is mined todayMining in Mozambique

Where next

Mines

ExamplesMoloAfrican graphite: Balama made 67 kt in 2025 and Molo has begun making concentrate.1

Deposit types

An example ofMetamorphic graphite (flake, amorphous and vein)Balama belongs to the metamorphic graphite family of deposits.4

Sources

  1. 2025 Annual Report Syrah Resources Ltd (ASX)
  2. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  3. Balama (Q4849911) Wikidata
  4. Critical Mineral Resources of the United States (PP 1802), Chapter J: Graphite US Geological Survey

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Pictures: Salar de Atacama, Chile, NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)).