Which country is the home of Mount Keith Mine, and the world's largest mining company which operates it?
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Mount Keith Mine Mount Keith Mine is an open pit nickel mine in Western Australia. It is operated by BHP. The site's closest landmark is the town of Wiluna, 85 km to the north.
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BHP BHP, the trading entity of BHP Billiton Limited and BHP Billiton plc and formerly known as BHP Billiton, is an Anglo-Australian multinational mining, metals and petroleum dual-listed public company headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1885 in the isolated mining town of Broken Hill, it was the world's largest mining company measured by 2015 market values and Australia's fourth-largest company (by revenue), formerly the largest.
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Black Rock mine The Black Rock mine is a mine located in the north of South Africa. Black Rock represents one of the largest manganese reserves in South Africa having estimated reserves of 70.4 million tonnes of manganese ore grading 39% manganese metal.
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Broken Hill ore deposit The Broken Hill Ore Deposit is located underneath Broken Hill in western New South Wales, Australia, and is the namesake for the town. It is arguably the world's richest and largest zinc-lead ore deposit.
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Blackwater coal mine The Blackwater coal mine is a coal mine located in the Central Queensland south of the town of Blackwater, Queensland in the suburb of Stewarton. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 877 million tonnes of coking coal, one of the largest coal reserves in Australia and the world. It is owned by BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance and has an annual production capacity of 13 million tonnes of coal.
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Mutorashanga Mutorashanga is a small ferrochrome mining town in Mashonaland West province in Zimbabwe. Situated on Zimbabwe's Great Dyke mountain range, about 100 kilometers north of the capital, Harare. The mines at Mutorashanga are largely owned by Zimasco, a chrome mining company owned in turn by Sinosteel Corporation, although some are operated by contractors. The area is well known for its abundant aloes, now threatened by mining, and other endemic flora. Aloe Ortholopha is endemic to the section of the Great Dyke mountain range in the Mutorashanga area.
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Cannington Mine The Cannington Silver and Lead Mine is an Australian underground mine located in north-west Queensland, in the Shire of McKinlay, about 200 km southeast of Mount Isa. The deposit was discovered by Broken Hill Proprietary Company (BHP) in 1990. Although sitework and underground mining began in 1997, full production was not achieved until early 1999, with 1.5 million tons of ore processed in 1999. Production since has reached 3 million tons of ore per year. s of 2010 it was the largest and lowest cost silver and lead mine in the world. The expected life of the Cannington mine is 25 years. On August 19, 2014, the mine's owner BHP Billiton announced it was splitting the company in two. A newly formed entity called South32 is to house BHP Billiton's non-core businesses including the Cannington Mine. South32 is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (under the code S32), with a secondary listing in Johannesburg.
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Gemfields Gemfields plc is an AIM-listed multinational natural resources company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, and is one of the world's leading supplier of responsibly sourced coloured gemstones. The company specializes in the mining, processing and sale of coloured gemstones, in particular emeralds, rubies and amethysts. The group owns the "Kagem" emerald mine in Zambia, the single largest emerald mine in the world, the "Montepuez" ruby deposit in Mozambique, the most significant ruby deposit in the world, and the "Kariba" amethyst mine in Zambia. Gemfields produces around 25% of the world’s emerald supply and 70% of the world's ruby supply.
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Lucky Jack mine The Lucky Jack mine (formerly known as the Mount Emmons molybdenum property) is one of the largest molybdenum deposits in the United States. The mine is located West of Crested Butte, Colorado in Gunnison County, Colorado. The Molybrook mine has reserves amounting to 220 million tonnes of molybdenum ore grading 0.37% molybdenum thus resulting 814,000 tonnes of molybdenum.
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Mar mine The Mar mine is a large open pit mine located in the eastern part of Canada in Yukon. Mar represents one of the largest tungsten reserves in Canada having estimated reserves of 5.31 million tonnes of ore grading 0.39% tungsten.
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Great Snaefell Mining Company The Great Snaefell Mining Company was a mining company formed to operate the Great Snaefell Mine on the Isle of Man.
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Sundance Resources Sundance Resources Limited (SDL) is an Australian mining company, based in Perth, Western Australia, whose main assets are iron ore leases in Cameroon near Mbalam, and across the border in the Republic of Congo.
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MOIL (company) MOIL Limited (formerly Manganese Ore India Limited) is a miniratna state-owned manganese-ore mining company headquartered in Nagpur, India. With a market share of 50%, it was the largest producer of manganese ore in India in the fiscal year 2008. MOIL Limited has been ranked #486 among the 500 top companies in India and 9th in the Mines and Metals Sector of the Fortune India 500 list for 2011. MOIL operates 10 mines, six located in Nagpur and Bhandara districts of Maharashtra and four in the Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh. Of the 10, seven are underground mines (Kandri, Munsar, Beldongri, Gumgaon, Chikla, Balaghat and Ukwa mines) and three are opencast mines (Dongri Buzurg, Sitapatore, and Tirodi). Its Balaghat mine is the deepest underground manganese mine in Asia.
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Mineral industry of Africa The mineral industry of Africa is the largest mineral industries in the world. Africa is the second largest continent, with 30 million km² of land, which implies large quantities of resources. For many African countries, mineral exploration and production constitute significant parts of their economies and remain keys to economic growth. Africa is richly endowed with mineral reserves and ranks first or second in quantity of world reserves of bauxite, cobalt, industrial diamond, phosphate rock, platinum-group metals (PGM), vermiculite, and zirconium. Gold mining is Africa's main mining resource.
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Lihir mine The Lihir mine is one of the largest gold mines in Papua New Guinea and in the world. The mine is located in the north-east of the country in New Ireland Province. The mine has estimated reserves of 45 million oz of gold.
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Uranium mining by country The country mining the largest amount of uranium is Kazakhstan, which in 2015 produced 39% of the world's mining output. Canada was the next largest producer with a 22% share, followed by Australia with 9%. There are uranium mines on every inhabited continent.
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Riversdale Mining Riversdale Mining is an Australian mining company, listed on the S&P/ASX 200. It specialises in coal mines in Africa.
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Rietkuil mine The Rietkuil mine is a large mine located in the northern part of South Africa in Gauteng. Rietkuil represents one of the largest uranium reserves in South Africa having estimated reserves of 127.8 million tonnes of ore grading 0.043% uranium.
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Tarkwa mine The Tarkwa mine is one of the largest gold mines in the Ghana and in the world. The mine is located in the south-west of the country in the Western Region. The mine has estimated reserves of 15.1 million oz of gold.
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Challenger mine The Challenger mine is a gold mine in the Far North of South Australia, 165 km west of the Stuart Highway and 740 km north-west of Adelaide. It is operated by Kingsgate Consolidated Ltd.
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Coal mining Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content, and, since the 1880s, has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement production. In the United Kingdom and South Africa a coal mine and its structures are a colliery; a coal mine a pit; the above-ground structures the "pit head". In Australia, "colliery" generally refers to an underground coal mine. In the United States "colliery" has been used to describe a coal mine operation but nowadays the word is not commonly used.
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Lefa mine The Lefa mine is a Guinean gold mine. It is one of the world's largest. The mine is located in the center of the country, in Faranah Region. The mine has estimated reserves of 7.78 million oz of gold and is operated by Nordgold.