Mines & Extraction · mine
Weipa
Australia · Open pit
- Opened
- 1963
- Region
- Queensland
- Status
- Active
- Country
- Australia
- Notes
- Bauxite a few metres below the surface of Cape York, strip-mined at over 35 million tonnes a year and shipped to the Gladstone refineries.
- Type
- Open pit
- Latitude
- -12.63
- Longitude
- 141.87
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