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Goulamina mine

Goulamina mine, Mali. Producing, mining lithium.

Why Goulamina is famous

Wikidata records Goulamina as a lithium mine in southern Mali. USGS reports two lithium mining operations in Mali that started in 2024 and does not name them. Mali's lithium mine output is estimated at 9,400 t of lithium content in 2025, up from 770 t in 2024. The link between Goulamina and those figures is not stated by USGS.1,2

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Timeline

  1. 23 June 2022Leo Lithium lists on the ASX3

What kind of deposit

Lithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatite

Goulamina today

Where lithium is mined todayMining in Mali

Where next

Mines

An example ofBikitaAfrican lithium: Goulamina in Mali and Bikita in Zimbabwe.1

Events

HereLeo Lithium lists on the ASXLeo Lithium began trading on 23 June 2022 to fund the Goulamina project in Mali.3

Deposit types

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

Sources

  1. Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026, Lithium US Geological Survey
  2. Goulamina (Q137942435) Wikidata
  3. Condensed consolidated financial report, half-year to 30 Jun 2022 (ASX announcement 13 Sep 2022) Leo Lithium Limited via ASX
  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: San Francisco, California: the Golden Gate bay area. Photograph, ca. 1880., Unknown (Wellcome Collection) (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Salar de Atacama, Chile, NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)).