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Cannington mine

Cannington mine, Australia. Producing, underground, mining silver, lead, zinc since 1997.

Why Cannington is famous

Cannington is an underground silver, lead and zinc mine in north-west Queensland, 85 km south-west of McKinlay. USGS lists capacities of about 700,000 kg of silver, 265,000 t of lead and 100,000 t of zinc a year in 2021. Wikidata dates its start to 1997.1,2,3

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Cannington today

Where silver is mined todayWhere lead is mined todayWhere zinc is mined todayMining in Australia

Sources

  1. 2020-21 Minerals Yearbook, Australia (advance release) US Geological Survey
  2. Cannington Mine (Q12109576) Wikidata
  3. data/minerals/operations.csv (modern operations table) prospectortrails.com internal data

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: Froth flotation and tailings by Nina111955, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: South Africa: a crowd of people gathered outside The Goldfields offices in Johannesburg. 1896., Unknown (Wellcome Collection) (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Falu gruva, Lundberg, Bengt A / Europeana (CC0 1.0).