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Bald Hill mine

Bald Hill mine, Australia. Care and maintenance, mining lithium, tantalum.

Why Bald Hill is famous

Bald Hill is a lithium and tantalum mine 50 km south-east of Kambalda in Western Australia. USGS lists it as on care and maintenance in 2021, with a spodumene concentrate capacity of 150,000 t a year.1,2

Story cards

Timeline

  1. 2022Wodgina lithium mine restarts3

What kind of deposit

Lithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatite

Bald Hill today

Where lithium is mined todayWhere tantalum is mined todayMining in Australia

Where next

Events

ExamplesWodgina lithium mine restartsBald Hill, 50 km south-east of Kambalda, was on care and maintenance in 2021.1

Deposit types

An example ofLithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatiteBald Hill belongs to the lithium-caesium-tantalum family of deposits.4

Sources

  1. 2020-21 Minerals Yearbook, Australia (advance release) US Geological Survey
  2. Bald Hill (Q21958564) Wikidata
  3. WA Battery and Critical Minerals Profile, March 2024 Western Australian Treasury Corporation
  4. Mineral Deposit Models for Resource Assessment, Chapter O: Mineral-Deposit Model for Lithium-Cesium-Tantalum Pegmatites (SIR 2010-5070-O) 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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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: Salar de Atacama, Chile, NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)).