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The King Island scheelite mine

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In the years immediately preceding the present war, 75 per cent of the world's production of tungsten concentrates came from southeast Asia; approximately 50 per cent came from China. This production consisted almost wholly of wolfram. With the entry of Japan into the war in 1941 and its occupation of Indo-China, Thailand and Burma, these supplies were cut off from the United Nations. This cessation of supplies made it necessary that all countries amongst the United Nations should make intensive efforts to increase their production of tungsten ores and concentrates. In Australia, the effort was necessary in order that as much tungsten concentrate as possible could, after domestic requirements were satisfied, be exported to Great Britain and the United States of America. As the King Island Scheelite Mine was (and still is) the largest producer of tungsten concentrates in Australia, the possibilities of increased production from the that mine were among the first to be considered.

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Title The King Island scheelite mine
Language eng
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Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/f5a52443-73ea-481e-89e7-79814e0daa23
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[143.0, -40.0], [144.0, -40.0], [144.0, -39.5], [143.0, -39.5], [143.0, -40.0]]]}
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