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Mount Isa Mines

Mount Isa Mines, Australia. Producing, underground, mining copper, lead, zinc, silver.

Why Mount Isa Mines is famous

Glencore said on 8 May 2025 that no decision had yet been made on its smelter and refinery, with talks continuing and studies on a Black Star open cut and tailings reprocessing. The later outcome is unknown to me.1,2

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Timeline

  1. 2013Glencore completes merger with Xstrata3

Mount Isa Mines today

Where copper is mined todayWhere lead is mined todayWhere zinc is mined todayWhere silver is mined todayMining in Australia

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Events

Owned byGlencore completes merger with XstrataGlencore said in May 2025 that no decision had been made on the Mount Isa smelter.1

Places

Located inMount IsaMount Isa Mines is about 2 km from Mount Isa.1

Sources

  1. Mount Isa update, 8 May 2025 Glencore
  2. Wikidata entity Q6921438
  3. Glencore timeline

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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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Froth flotation and tailings by Nina111955, CC BY-SA 4.0; Ball mills and SAG mills by photosmith2011, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0. Pictures: Timna in de Negevwoestijn; rotspartij "de zuilen van Salomo", Poll, Willem van de / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0).