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Panasqueira mine

Panasqueira mine, Portugal. Producing, underground, mining tungsten since 1896.

Why Panasqueira is famous

Portugal's Panasqueira is an underground tungsten mine. The first licence dates from 1886 and wolframite was noted in 1888. A mining company formed in 1896 and the mine ran more or less continuously, apart from a pause at the end of the Second World War and a closure in the mid-1990s. Almonty bought it in 2016.1,2,3

Story cards

What kind of deposit

Tin greisen and tin vein

Panasqueira today

Where tungsten is mined todayMining in PortugalPanasqueira Mine project page

Where next

Mines

An example ofMittersill (Felbertal tungsten mine)Europe's tungsten: Panasqueira's company formed in 1896, Mittersill's scheelite was found in 1967.1ExamplesHemerdonPanasqueira has run since a company formed in 1896. Hemerdon plans a restart.1ExamplesPasto BuenoTungsten in Peru's Ancash region and in Portugal: Pasto Bueno and Panasqueira.4

Deposit types

An example ofTin greisen and tin veinPanasqueira belongs to the tin greisen and tin vein family of deposits.5

Sources

  1. Annual Information Form for 2025 Almonty Industries (SEC exhibit 99.1 to Form 40-F)
  2. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  3. Panasqueira (Q9054996) Wikidata
  4. Malaga announces discovery of new tungsten mineralized deep zone at Pasto Bueno Andina (Peru state news agency)
  5. 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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