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Mount Lyell mine

Mount Lyell mine, Australia, mining copper, gold, silver.

Why Mount Lyell mine is famous

Tasmanian copper mine at Queenstown. The 2014 closure and the river damage are not verified from an opened page; see NOTES.md.1

Mount Lyell mine today

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Mines

Same kind of depositRiotinto mining districtRio Tinto's lodes were worked in Roman times. Mount Lyell in Tasmania is a copper mine of the same family.2

Places

Located inQueenstownMount Lyell mine is about 3 km from Queenstown.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q16509725 (Mount Lyell Mine) Wikidata (CC0)
  2. Riotinto mining district study Onoba (journal article, 2021)

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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