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Windimurra mine

Windimurra mine, Australia. Producing, open pit, mining vanadium.

Why Windimurra is famous

Vanadium operation in Western Australia, listed in USGS 2020-21.1,2

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Windimurra today

Where vanadium is mined todayMining in Australia

Where next

Mines

An example ofPanzhihuaVanadium in Western Australia and in China's Panzhihua complex.1

Places

Located inMount MagnetWindimurra's vanadium lies in the Murchison, near Mount Magnet.1

Sources

  1. Minerals Yearbook 2020-21, volume III: The Mineral Industry of Australia US Geological Survey
  2. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)

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.