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Nova (Nova-Bollinger) mine

Nova (Nova-Bollinger) mine, Australia. Producing, mining nickel.

Why Nova (Nova-Bollinger) is famous

Nova is a nickel mine in Western Australia. Wikidata gives the location and calls it a nickel mine. Output, ownership and dates are not yet sourced.1

What kind of deposit

Magmatic nickel-copper-PGE sulphide

Nova (Nova-Bollinger) today

Where nickel is mined todayMining in Australia

Where next

Mines

An example ofKambalda nickelKambalda began Western Australia's nickel industry in 1967. Nova is another nickel mine there.2

Deposit types

An example ofMagmatic nickel-copper-PGE sulphideNova (Nova-Bollinger) belongs to the magmatic nickel-copper-pge sulphide family of deposits.3

Sources

  1. Nova mine (Q117287422) Wikidata
  2. Kambalda nickel history State Library of Western Australia
  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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