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Niobec mine

Niobec mine, Canada. Producing, underground, mining niobium.

Why Niobec is famous

Underground niobium mine in Quebec. History not yet sourced.1,2

What kind of deposit

Carbonatite and alkaline intrusion

Niobec today

Where niobium is mined todayMining in Canada

Where next

Mines

An example ofAraxa (CBMM)Niobium from Quebec's Niobec and Brazil's CBMM Araxa.1

Deposit types

An example ofCarbonatite and alkaline intrusionNiobec belongs to the carbonatite and alkaline intrusion family of deposits.3

Sources

  1. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  2. Niobec Mine (Q3342063) Wikidata
  3. 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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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0.