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Kenticha mine

Kenticha mine, Ethiopia. Producing, open pit, mining tantalum, lithium.

Why Kenticha is famous

Ethiopian tantalum and lithium mine. History not yet sourced.1

What kind of deposit

Lithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatite

Kenticha today

Where tantalum is mined todayWhere lithium is mined todayMining in Ethiopia

Where next

Deposit types

An example ofLithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatiteKenticha belongs to the lithium-caesium-tantalum family of deposits.2

Sources

  1. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  2. 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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