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Mibra mine

Mibra mine, Brazil. Producing, open pit, mining tantalum, tin, lithium.

Why Mibra is famous

Brazilian tantalum, tin and lithium mine. History not yet sourced.1,2

What kind of deposit

Lithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatite

Mibra today

Where tantalum is mined todayWhere tin is mined todayWhere lithium is mined todayMining in BrazilMibra (Volta Grande) mine project page

Where next

Deposit types

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

Sources

  1. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  2. Mibra (Q137942364) 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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Pictures: Elektrisk malmletning. Undersökningar på Billiton, 1920., Okänd / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0).