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Greenbushes

Boom town, Australia, founded 1889.

About Greenbushes

Town in Western Australia.1

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Mines

Worked atGreenbushesGreenbushes lies close to Greenbushes.1

Events

Led toTin mining starts at GreenbushesGreenbushes is part of this story: Tin mining starts at Greenbushes.1Led toGreenbushes lithium production beginsGreenbushes is part of this story: Greenbushes lithium production begins.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q1826852 (Greenbushes)

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: Salar de Atacama, Chile, NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)).