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SHOWCASE ZINC MINE OF THE WEEK - MCARTHUR RIVER

The McArthur River mine is one of the world's largest zinc, lead and silver mines, situated about 70 kilometres southwest of Borroloola, near the Gulf of Carpentaria in the northeastern Northern Territory, Australia. It is operated by McArthur River Mining (MRM), a subsidiary of the Swiss mining company Glencore. Although discovered in the 1950s, when it was originally called the HYC or "Here's Your Chance" deposit, it only opened as a mine in 1995. Initially an underground mining operation, the mine has been converted to open-cut - "Mining.com", Wikipedia.

To view the mine in Google Earth, kindly click on the link below:

"https://earth.app.goo.gl/zYX8d2"

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