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| 광산 | 국가 | 운영사 | 유형 | 광상 | 생산 품목 | 이후 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athabasca Oil Sands (Mildred Lake / Aurora) Alberta | Canada | Syncrude / Suncor | 트럭-셔블 노천채굴 | Bitumen-saturated sand | Oil Sands & Bitumen, Crude Oil, Sulfur | 1967 |
| Bayan Obo Inner Mongolia | China | Baogang Group | 노천굴 | Carbonatite-hosted iron-REE-niobium | Rare Earths (all), Cerium, Iron Ore, Lanthanum… | 1957 |
| Bingham Canyon Utah | United States | Rio Tinto Kennecott | 노천굴 | Porphyry copper | Copper, Gold, Molybdenum, Silver | 1906 |
| Bowen Basin Queensland | Australia | BHP Mitsubishi Alliance and others | 노천굴 및 지하 장벽식 채탄 | Permian coal measures | Metallurgical Coal | 1960 |
| Cannington Queensland | Australia | South32 | 지하채굴 | Broken Hill-type silver-lead-zinc | Silver, Lead, Zinc | 1997 |
| Carajás Pará | Brazil | Vale | 노천굴 | Banded iron formation | Iron Ore, Copper, Manganese, Gold | 1985 |
| Cerro Verde Arequipa | Peru | Freeport-McMoRan | 노천굴 | Porphyry copper | Copper, Molybdenum, Silver | 1976 |
| Chuquicamata Antofagasta | Chile | Codelco | 지하채굴 (노천채굴에서 전환) | Porphyry copper | Copper, Molybdenum | 1910 |
| Cigar Lake Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan | Canada | Cameco | 지하채굴, 동결지반 제트보링 | Unconformity-related uranium | Uranium | 2014 |
| Collahuasi Tarapacá | Chile | Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi | 노천굴 | Porphyry copper | Copper, Molybdenum, Silver | 1999 |
| El Teniente O'Higgins | Chile | Codelco | 지하 블록케이빙 | Porphyry copper | Copper, Molybdenum | 1905 |
| Escondida Antofagasta, Atacama Desert | Chile | BHP | 노천굴 + 침출 | Porphyry copper | Copper, Gold, Molybdenum, Silver | 1990 |
| Esterhazy Saskatchewan | Canada | Mosaic | 지하채굴 | Bedded evaporite potash | Potash | 1962 |
| Goulamina Bougouni | Mali | Lithium du Mali | 노천굴 | LCT pegmatite | Lithium | 2024 |
| Grasberg Papua | Indonesia | Freeport-McMoRan / PT-FI | 지하 블록케이빙 (구 노천채굴) | Porphyry / skarn copper-gold | Copper, Gold, Silver | 1973 |
| Greenbushes Western Australia | Australia | Talison Lithium | 노천굴 | Zoned pegmatite | Lithium, Tantalum | 1888 |
| Groote Eylandt (GEMCO) Northern Territory | Australia | South32 | 노천굴 | Sedimentary manganese | Manganese | 1965 |
| Jwaneng Naledi River valley | Botswana | Debswana | 노천굴 | Kimberlite pipe | Diamond (Industrial) | 1982 |
| Kalgoorlie Super Pit (Fimiston) Western Australia | Australia | Northern Star Resources | 노천굴 | Archaean orogenic gold | Gold, Silver | 1989 |
| Kamoa-Kakula Lualaba | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Kamoa Copper SA | 지하채굴 | Sediment-hosted stratiform copper | Copper, Cobalt | 2021 |
| Kamoto (KCC) Kolwezi | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Kamoto Copper Company | 지하채굴 + 노천채굴 | Sediment-hosted copper-cobalt | Copper, Cobalt | 1969 |
| Khouribga Oulad Abdoun Basin | Morocco | OCP Group | 노천굴 | Sedimentary phosphorite | Phosphate Rock | 1921 |
| Moanda Haut-Ogooué | Gabon | Eramet / Comilog | 노천굴 | Sedimentary manganese | Manganese | 1962 |
| Mogalakwena Limpopo, Bushveld Complex | South Africa | Anglo American Platinum | 노천굴 | Layered mafic intrusion (Platreef) | Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium, Copper, Nickel | 1993 |
| Morenci Arizona | United States | Freeport-McMoRan | 노천굴 + SX-EW 침출 | Porphyry copper | Copper, Molybdenum | 1872 |
| Mount Weld Western Australia | Australia | Lynas Rare Earths | 노천굴 | Weathered carbonatite | Rare Earths (all), Neodymium, Praseodymium | 2011 |
| Mountain Pass California | United States | MP Materials | 노천굴 | Carbonatite | Rare Earths (all), Cerium, Lanthanum, Neodymium… | 1952 |
| Mponeng Gauteng, Witwatersrand | South Africa | Harmony Gold | 지하채굴 | Witwatersrand conglomerate reef | Gold, Uranium | 1986 |
| Mutanda Lualaba | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Glencore | 노천굴 | Sediment-hosted copper-cobalt | Cobalt, Copper | 2012 |
| Norilsk-Talnakh Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia | Russia | Nornickel | 지하채굴 | Magmatic nickel-copper-PGM sulfide | Nickel, Copper, Palladium, Platinum, Cobalt, Rhodium | 1935 |
| Olympic Dam South Australia | Australia | BHP | 지하채굴 | Iron-oxide copper-gold (IOCG) | Copper, Uranium, Gold, Silver | 1988 |
| Oyu Tolgoi South Gobi | Mongolia | Rio Tinto | 노천굴 + 지하 블록케이브 | Porphyry copper-gold | Copper, Gold, Silver | 2013 |
| Pilbara Iron Ore District Western Australia | Australia | Rio Tinto, BHP, FMG, Hancock | 노천굴 | Banded iron formation, hematite enrichment | Iron Ore | 1966 |
| Pilgangoora Pilbara, Western Australia | Australia | Pilbara Minerals | 노천굴 | LCT pegmatite | Lithium, Tantalum | 2018 |
| Red Dog Alaska | United States | Teck Resources | 노천굴 | Sediment-hosted zinc-lead (SEDEX) | Zinc, Lead, Germanium | 1989 |
| Salar de Atacama Antofagasta | Chile | SQM and Albemarle | 염수 증발 | Salar brine | Lithium, Potash, Boron | 1984 |
| Salar del Hombre Muerto Catamarca / Salta | Argentina | Arcadium Lithium (Rio Tinto) | 염수, 선택적 흡착 | Salar brine | Lithium | 1998 |
| Sorowako Sulawesi | Indonesia | PT Vale Indonesia | 노천굴 + 제련소 | Nickel laterite | Nickel, Cobalt | 1977 |
| Southern China Ion-Adsorption Clays Jiangxi, Guangdong, Fujian | China | Multiple state-consolidated producers | 풍화 화강암의 현지 침출 | Ion-adsorption clay | Rare Earths (all), Dysprosium, Gadolinium, Terbium… | 1970 |
| Sudbury Basin Ontario | Canada | Vale and Glencore | 지하채굴 | Impact-related magmatic sulfide | Nickel, Copper, Cobalt, Palladium, Platinum | 1883 |
| Tenke Fungurume Lualaba | Democratic Republic of the Congo | CMOC | 노천굴 + 습식제련 플랜트 | Sediment-hosted copper-cobalt | Copper, Cobalt | 2009 |
| Thacker Pass Nevada | United States | Lithium Americas | 노천굴 + 산 침출 | Volcano-sedimentary claystone | Lithium | — |
| Udachny Sakha (Yakutia) | Russia | Alrosa | 지하채굴 (구 노천채굴) | Kimberlite pipe | Diamond (Industrial) | 1971 |
| Xikuangshan Hunan | China | Chinese state and provincial producers | 지하채굴 | Stibnite vein and stratabound antimony | Antimony | 1897 |
사진으로 찾아보기
Athabasca Oil Sands (Mildred Lake / Aurora)
Among the largest surface mining operations in the world by material moved.
Bayan Obo
The largest rare-earth deposit in the world.
Bingham Canyon
The largest excavation made by people.
Bowen Basin
The largest seaborne source of hard coking coal.
Cannington
One of the largest single silver producers in the world.
Carajás
The highest-grade large iron-ore operation in the world.
Cerro Verde
One of the largest concentrator complexes in the world by throughput.
Chuquicamata
Historically the largest open-pit copper mine in the world by excavated volume.
Cigar Lake
The highest-grade large uranium mine in the world.
Collahuasi
Among the largest copper mines by output.
El Teniente
The largest underground copper mine in the world by excavated extent.
Escondida
Consistently the largest copper mine in the world by output.
Esterhazy
The largest potash mine in the world.
Goulamina
One of the mines behind Mali's sudden appearance in world lithium statistics.
Grasberg
One of the largest copper deposits and among the largest gold deposits ever mined.
Greenbushes
The largest hard-rock lithium mine in the world.
Groote Eylandt (GEMCO)
One of the largest and highest-grade manganese operations in the world.
Jwaneng
The richest diamond mine in the world by value.
Kalgoorlie Super Pit (Fimiston)
One of the largest open-pit gold mines in the world.
Kamoa-Kakula
One of the highest-grade large copper deposits discovered in decades.
Kamoto (KCC)
Among the world's largest cobalt producers.
Khouribga
Part of the largest phosphate reserve base in the world.
Moanda
One of the world's largest manganese deposits.
Mogalakwena
The largest open-pit platinum-group metals mine in the world.
Morenci
The largest copper operation in North America.
Mount Weld
The mine behind the largest rare-earth separation capacity outside China.
Mountain Pass
The only operating rare-earth mine in the United States.
Mponeng
The deepest mine on Earth, working below 4 km.
Mutanda
At times the single largest cobalt mine in the world.
Norilsk-Talnakh
The largest palladium source in the world and a major nickel producer.
Olympic Dam
One of the largest single orebodies of any kind, holding copper, uranium, gold and silver together.
Oyu Tolgoi
Expected to become one of the largest copper mines in the world as the block cave ramps up.
Pilbara Iron Ore District
The largest iron-ore export region in the world.
Pilgangoora
One of the largest independent hard-rock lithium operations.
Red Dog
One of the largest zinc mines in the world.
Salar de Atacama
The highest-grade and most productive lithium brine operation in the world.
Salar del Hombre Muerto
The longest-running direct lithium extraction operation in the world.
Sorowako
One of Indonesia's long-established integrated nickel operations.
Southern China Ion-Adsorption Clays
Historically the dominant world source of heavy rare earths.
Sudbury Basin
One of the longest-producing nickel districts on Earth.
Tenke Fungurume
One of the largest cobalt sources on Earth.
Thacker Pass
The largest known lithium resource in the United States.
Udachny
One of the world's largest diamond operations.
Xikuangshan
The largest antimony deposit in the world, often called the 'antimony capital'.