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Browns Range mine

Browns Range mine, Australia. In development, mining rare earths.

Why Browns Range is famous

Browns Range is a heavy rare earth project 160 km southeast of Halls Creek in Western Australia, near the Northern Territory border. The operator says its Wolverine deposit is the highest-grade dysprosium and terbium deposit known in Australia. That is a company claim. Pilot plant history is not yet sourced from a page we opened.1,2

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What kind of deposit

Ion-adsorption clay rare earths

Browns Range today

Where rare earths is mined todayMining in Australia

Where next

Mines

An example ofMount WeldTwo WA rare earth projects: Browns Range for heavy elements, Mount Weld for NdPr.1

Deposit types

ExamplesIon-adsorption clay rare earthsBrowns Range's Wolverine deposit is rich in the heavy rare earths dysprosium and terbium.1

Sources

  1. Browns Range HRE project page Northern Minerals
  2. Browns Range (Q137942157) Wikidata

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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