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Century Mine
Century Mine is a large open cut zinc, lead and silver mine 250 km northwest of Mount Isa in North West Queensland, Australia. It was built on Waanyi land. It was Australia’s largest open pit zinc mine. The mine was owned by Pasminco, then Zinifex, then OZ Minerals and then sold to MMG Century and is currently owned by New Century Resources.
History.
Development of the mine commenced in 1997, previously being used for grazing purposes. The mine began open-pit production
the mine's main product was copper, though arsenic and tin were also produced. There are several lodes at the mine, some of which were crossed by an elvan dyke, 15 to wide which in places was highly mineralized.
Early history.
There were probably mine workings in the area of Wheal Busy since the 16th century, but it was not until the 1720s that the mine started to produce large amounts of copper ore. The principal landowner was the Boscawen family.
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