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Tanco mine

Tanco mine, Canada. Producing, underground, mining tantalum, caesium, lithium.

Why Tanco is famous

Tanco in Manitoba mines tantalum, caesium and lithium. History not yet sourced.1

What kind of deposit

Lithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatite

Tanco today

Where tantalum is mined todayWhere caesium is mined todayWhere lithium is mined todayMining in Canada

Where next

Mines

Same kind of depositGreenbushesGreenbushes started with tin in 1888. Tanco in Manitoba mines tantalum, caesium and lithium.2

Deposit types

An example ofLithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatiteA working example of the lithium-caesium-tantalum (lct) pegmatite type.3

Sources

  1. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  2. Greenbushes Lithium Operation technical report summary 2025 Albemarle Corporation (SEC exhibit 96.1, SLR technical report summary)
  3. Mineral Deposit Models for Resource Assessment, Chapter O: Mineral-Deposit Model for Lithium-Cesium-Tantalum Pegmatites (SIR 2010-5070-O) 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: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: Elektrisk malmletning. Undersökningar på Billiton, 1920., Okänd / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0); San Francisco, California: the Golden Gate bay area. Photograph, ca. 1880., Unknown (Wellcome Collection) (Public Domain Mark 1.0).