Wodgina tantalum mine

Australia / Western Australia / Port Hedland /
 open-pit mine, iron mine, lithium refinery
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The Wodgina mine is an exhausted tantalum mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, 90 kilometres south of Port Hedland.
At the time, the tantalum mine had been placed on care and maintenance by Global Advanced Metals and in January 2011, the company announced that it would restart tantalum production. Products lithium direct shipping ore, and spodumene concentrate. Less than a year after it reopened, due to softening global demand, tantalum mining operations ceased at the end of February 2012.
Restart of lithium and tantalum ore production in 2022.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wodgina_mine
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Coordinates:   21°11'1"S   118°40'7"E

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  • The largest tantalum mine in the World. Underpined the World market having produced nearly half the World's supply of Tantalum. Tantalum is critical to high performance capacitors used in things like heart pacemakers. Competition from sources in Africa, such as the "Democratic" Republic of the Congo, has forced Wodgina to close. heard of Blood Diamonds? Now can you say Blood Tantalum? Good, I knew you could.
  • What is really ludicrous is the reaction to trace amounts of radioactives in the concentrate. Not enough to hurt anyone but enough to restrict shipping the concentrate by air. The Eco movement shut the mine down and Africa produced more at great costs in human lives.
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