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Moonta Mines

Moonta Mines, Australia. Heritage site, underground, mining copper.

Why Moonta Mines is famous

Copper found in 1861 and the Moonta Mining Company formed in 1862. Mining closed in 1923 and leaching of waste continued to 1943.1,2

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Moonta Mines today

Where copper is mined todayMining in Australia

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Places

Located inMoontaMoonta Mines sits at Moonta.1

Sources

  1. Moonta Mines State Heritage Area fact sheet Government of South Australia
  2. Wikidata entity Q24189659

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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