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Mittersill (Felbertal tungsten mine)

Mittersill (Felbertal tungsten mine), Austria. Producing, underground, mining tungsten since 1975.

Why Mittersill (Felbertal tungsten mine) is famous

The Felbertal scheelite deposit near Mittersill in Salzburg was found in 1967 and became the type example of a strata-bound tungsten deposit. Wolfram Bergbau und Hutten has operated the mine since 1975. A 2018 field guide gives about 500,000 t of ore a year at 0.3% WO3 and about 16 Mt of ore produced to date. It is one of the biggest tungsten mines outside China.1,2,3

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Mittersill (Felbertal tungsten mine) today

Where tungsten is mined todayMining in Austria

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People

InspiredCarl Wilhelm ScheeleScheelite was analysed in 1781. Mittersill's Felbertal deposit became its type example in Europe.1

Mines

An example ofPanasqueiraMittersill has run since 1975. Panasqueira's company formed in 1896.4

Sources

  1. Raith, Schmidt and Aupers: Tungsten deposit Felbertal, field trip guide Geologische Bundesanstalt (Berichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 126)
  2. Raith: Strata-bound scheelite deposits revisited, 50 years of Felbertal Austrian Mineralogical Society (Mitteilungen der Osterreichischen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft 163)
  3. Mittersill mine (Q6883536) Wikidata
  4. Annual Information Form for 2025 Almonty Industries (SEC exhibit 99.1 to Form 40-F)

Pictures on this page: Carl Wilhelm Scheele.jpg, Unidentified painter (Public domain).

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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