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Sangdong mine

Sangdong mine, South Korea. In development, underground, mining tungsten.

Why Sangdong is famous

South Korea's Sangdong tungsten mine. Mineralisation was found in 1916 and the main deposit in 1939-40. The mine worked until 1994, at up to 750,200 t of ore a year. Almonty reports commercial mining began in December 2025 with the plant in commissioning.1,2,3

Story cards

What kind of deposit

Tungsten skarn

Sangdong today

Where tungsten is mined todayMining in South Korea

Where next

Mines

An example ofStibniteSangdong's tungsten was found in 1916. Stibnite's claims were staked in 1914.1ExamplesPasto BuenoTungsten in Peru and Korea: Pasto Bueno and Sangdong.4

Deposit types

An example ofTungsten skarnSangdong belongs to the tungsten skarn 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. Sangdong (Q16167097) 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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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Ore sorting by Tomra Sorting GmbH, CC BY-SA 4.0.