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Panzhihua mine

Panzhihua mine, China. Producing, open pit, mining vanadium, titanium minerals, iron ore.

Why Panzhihua is famous

Chinese vanadium, titanium and iron-ore complex. History not yet sourced.1

Panzhihua today

Where vanadium is mined todayWhere titanium minerals is mined todayWhere iron ore is mined todayMining in China

Where next

People

ExamplesWilliam GregorGregor found titanium in 1791. Panzhihua in China yields vanadium, titanium and iron ore.2

Mines

ExamplesWindimurraVanadium in Western Australia and in China's Panzhihua complex.3

Sources

  1. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  2. Gregor, William Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900 vol 23 (public-domain text on Wikisource), article by G. C. Boase
  3. Minerals Yearbook 2020-21, volume III: The Mineral Industry of Australia US Geological Survey

Pictures on this page: Portrait of the Reverend William Gregor (1761–1817).jpg, John Hoppner, R.A. (Public domain).

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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