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Nkomati mine

Nkomati mine, South Africa. Producing, open pit and underground, mining nickel, cobalt, copper, platinum, chromium.

Why Nkomati is famous

Nkomati mine, run by African Rainbow Minerals with Norilsk Nickel. USGS notes chromite sales of 165,000 t in 2020, down from 424,000 t.1,2

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What kind of deposit

Layered intrusion PGM and chromite (Bushveld type)

Nkomati today

Where nickel is mined todayWhere cobalt is mined todayWhere copper is mined todayWhere platinum is mined todayWhere chromium is mined todayMining in South Africa

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Deposit types

An example ofLayered intrusion PGM and chromite (Bushveld type)Nkomati belongs to the layered intrusion pgm and chromite family of deposits.3

Sources

  1. Minerals Yearbook 2020-21, volume III: The Mineral Industry of South Africa US Geological Survey
  2. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  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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