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Moa mine

Moa mine, Cuba. Producing, open pit, mining nickel, cobalt.

Why Moa is famous

Cuban nickel and cobalt operation. History not yet sourced.1

What kind of deposit

Nickel laterite

Moa today

Where nickel is mined todayWhere cobalt is mined todayMining in Cuba

Where next

Deposit types

An example ofNickel lateriteA working example of the nickel laterite type.2

Sources

  1. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  2. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) 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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