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San Rafael mine

San Rafael mine, Peru. Producing, underground, mining tin.

Why San Rafael is famous

Peru's San Rafael is an underground tin mine. History not yet sourced.1,2

Timeline

  1. 1888Tin mining starts at Greenbushes3

San Rafael today

Where tin is mined todayMining in Peru

Where next

Mines

An example ofRenisonUnderground tin on two continents: San Rafael in Peru and Renison Bell in Tasmania.1

Events

An example ofTin mining starts at GreenbushesTin also came from a find at Greenbushes in 1888, in Western Australia.3

Sources

  1. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  2. San Rafael mine (Peru) (Q21838024) Wikidata
  3. Tin (Mining and Energy Western Australia exhibition) State Library of Western Australia

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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Pictures: Dolcoath tin mine, Camborne, Cornwall: miners in a mine shaft, standing on wooden platforms connected by ladders. Photograph by J. C. Burrow, 1890/1910., Burrow, J. C., 1852-1914 (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Chiquicamata Mine, Chile, NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)).