Copper Mines of Tasmania
Copper Mines of Tasmania is the successor company to the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company that operated in Queenstown, Tasmania for just short of one hundred years.
History
The first form of the company existed during the time of the
Sterlite Industries (India) Limited.[2] It is now owned by Vedanta Resources
.
Its mine output goes to supply the companies copper smelter in Tuticorin, India.
Production stopped at the mine in January 2014 following three deaths. Its reopening was subsequently prevented by a rockfall. As of July 2014, it was not expected to reopen for up to three years.[3][needs update]
See also
- West Coast Tasmania Mines
References
- ^ "The Hindu : Sterlite to divest paper division". Archived from the original on 29 June 2003. Retrieved 16 May 2008.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd".
- ^ "Tasmania's Mount Lyell mine to close, 200 workers redundant". ABC News. 10 July 2014.
External links
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080719025839/http://cmt.com.au/history.asp Copper Mines of Tasmania history
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