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Kathleen Valley mine

Kathleen Valley mine, Australia. Producing, open pit and underground, mining lithium, tantalum.

Why Kathleen Valley is famous

Lithium and tantalum mine in Western Australia. History not yet sourced.1,2

What kind of deposit

Lithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatite

Kathleen Valley today

Where lithium is mined todayWhere tantalum is mined todayMining in Australia

Where next

Places

Located inWilunaKathleen Valley is about 29 km from Wiluna.1

Deposit types

An example ofLithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatiteKathleen Valley belongs to the lithium-caesium-tantalum family of deposits.3

Sources

  1. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  2. Kathleen Valley (Q137942380) Wikidata
  3. 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)).