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Xikuangshan mine

Xikuangshan mine, China. Producing, underground, mining antimony.

Why Xikuangshan is famous

Hunan's Xikuangshan is the best known antimony field in China. History not yet sourced. USGS 2021 lists Hsikwangshan Twinkling Star Antimony, wholly owned by China Minmetals, at Lengshuijiang in Hunan, with ore capacity of 600,000 t a year and metal capacity of 40,000 t a year.1,2

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Xikuangshan today

Where antimony is mined todayMining in China

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Mines

An example ofStibniteAntimony: Xikuangshan in Hunan and Stibnite in Idaho, the main US source in the Second World War.3An example ofConsolidated Murchison (Antimony Line)Antimony in China and South Africa: Xikuangshan and Consolidated Murchison.1

Sources

  1. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  2. 2020-21 Minerals Yearbook, China (advance release) US Geological Survey
  3. Stibnite Historic District, National Register of Historic Places nomination Idaho State Historical Society (National Register nomination)

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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