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The King Island scheelite mine, King Island, Tasmania

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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King Island is situated at the western end of Bass Strait. The scheelite deposits at Grassy were discovered by Mr. T. Farrell about 1913. A new Company - King Island Scheelite N.L. was formed and commenced operations during 1938 and results of their operations to the 31st October, 1941 show: [see record for complete table]. The present production (based on 1941 figures) is 30,000 tons of ore per annum from which 200 tons of scheelite concentrate is obtained. Geology, mining operations, milling practice, and recommendations for testing and development are discussed.

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Title The King Island scheelite mine, King Island, Tasmania
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/e14747d7-ed83-4560-bb55-5cfa451e146b
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "The King Island scheelite mine, King Island, Tasmania". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/the-king-island-scheelite-mine-king-island-tasmania