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Telfer mine

Telfer mine, Australia. Producing, open pit and underground, mining gold, copper, silver.

Why Telfer is famous

Telfer is a gold and copper mine in the Great Sandy Desert, 400 km east-south-east of Port Hedland, Western Australia. USGS listed it under Newcrest Mining with a gold capacity of 15,000 kg a year for 2021. Discovery, opening and current ownership are not yet sourced.1,2

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Telfer today

Where gold is mined todayWhere copper is mined todayWhere silver is mined todayMining in AustraliaTelfer project page

Sources

  1. 2020-21 Minerals Yearbook, Australia (advance release) US Geological Survey
  2. data/minerals/operations.csv (modern operations table) prospectortrails.com internal data

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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