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Birmingham Post
Birmingham Post
Business
William Telford

Arrival of ore sorting kit means Plymouth's tungsten mine moves closer to full production

Work has begun at Plymouth’s vast Hemerdon Mine on a plant to house x-ray machines which will scan rocks to find valuable tungsten and tin.

Tungsten West Plc, the mining company working to restart production at the Hemerdon tungsten and tin mine has broken ground for the installation of X-Ray Transmission (XRT) Ore Sorters.

The AIM-listed company, which bought the mine out of receivership for £2.8m in 2019, said this marks another major step in its £45m upgrade and refurbishment plans for the processing plant at the mine, the third largest tungsten resource in the world.

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