Deposits and Projects

Introduction While traditional mining projects usually involve exploration for in-demand commodities, we occasionally run across projects that work backwards: They find unique mineral deposits and try to create a demand. ...

Jamaica was known as the world’s top producer of bauxite producers globally, with a capacity of up to 5 million tonnes annually (1957-1971).  Since then Jamaica has remained in the ...

“I am the rich Potosi, the treasure of the world, the king of mountains, and the envy of kings” Charles V Emperor Holy Roman Empire, King of Spain. Despite the richness ...

In this column on great deposits, I have discussed those that were rich, big, changed destinies, broke governments and accumulated a wealth of stories. However, only one has definitively changed ...

Introduction Flying over Nevada on a clear day is one of the great joys of being an economic geologist. The Basin and Range country has abundant structural features, intrusions, deformed ...

Introduction There is a thing about old mining camps. A certain resonance in the atmosphere. It comes from the hundreds or thousands that once toiled, in dark, dirty and dangerous ...

Introduction If you hang around the junior mining space long enough, you get to recognize a certain rhythm in how conferences are organized. There is the Roundup in January, Indaba ...

Introduction Breaker Resources (ASX: BRB) is a company exploring  the eastern goldfields superterrane of Western Australia, and they have recently discovered a large gold bearing system on their Lake Roe ...

When we write about great deposits they are most often well known mines with long established pedigrees and histories of daring exploration in isolated locations. But not all great deposits are ...

Located in the Mount Isa inlier of Queensland, Australia, the Mt Isa deposits represent the largest accumulations of lead, zinc and silver in the world. The first deposits were discovered ...