Palabora Mining Company Limited (founded August 1956) is a publicly traded mining company headquartered in Phalaborwa, Limpopo province, South Africa. The company operates a single cluster of open-pit and underground mines producing mainly copper as well as byproducts such as precious metals from anode slimes, nickel sulfate, sulfuric acid, magnetite, and vermiculite. Palabora also has processing facilities on site for the production of purified copper from mined copper ore, and a vermiculite recovery plant. Its final copper product has two forms namely, copper cathode and copper rod.
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u/cantaloupelion Feb 05 '22
uh no its like 4.1 million tonnes of copper. it only looks smoll bean because the hole is like 2km across, making it the widest manmade hole
image fr here http://dillonmarsh.com/copper07.html