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Zawar zinc mines

Zawar zinc mines, India. Producing, mining zinc, lead.

Why Zawar zinc mines is famous

Hindustan Zinc presents Zawar as a 3,000 year old mining legacy and lists it among its mining operations. No coordinates, dates or output were verified from the page opened. Wikidata item for Zawar is a place in Sikkim and was not used.1

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What kind of deposit

Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) lead-zinc

Zawar zinc mines today

Where zinc is mined todayWhere lead is mined todayMining in India

Where next

Deposit types

An example ofMississippi Valley-type (MVT) lead-zincZawar zinc mines belongs to the mississippi valley-type family of deposits.2

Sources

  1. Zawar: India 3,000-year-old mining legacy, reinvented by Hindustan Zinc Hindustan Zinc Limited
  2. Mineral Deposit Models for Resource Assessment, Chapter A: A Deposit Model for Mississippi Valley-Type Lead-Zinc Ores (SIR 2010-5070-A) 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: Froth flotation and tailings by Nina111955, CC BY-SA 4.0.