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Paraburdoo

Boom town, Australia.

About Paraburdoo

Town in Western Australia, Australia.1

Where next

Mines

Worked atHamersley Mines - ParaburdooHamersley Mines - Paraburdoo lies about 8 km away.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q9055284 (Paraburdoo)

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: Autonomous trucks by RobSimmons223311, CC BY-SA 4.0; Conveyors, rail and ports by Kabelleger / David Gubler, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: Kirunavaara gruva, Kiruna., Fotograf okänd, / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0).