Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2019
Authors: David J. Crook*, Stuart T. Kerr, Jess A. Booth, Nigel W. Brand, Russell Panting
Date Published: September 2019
Number of Pages: 5
Abstract:
The Sinclair Caesium Deposit, discovered in 2016 by Pioneer Resources Limited, is Australia’s first mining operation to commercially extract the caesium-rich mineral pollucite. Economic caesium deposits are extremely rare, with only three mining operations having produced commercial quantities of pollucite: the Bernic Lake Mine (or Tanco Mine, Manitoba, Canada), the Bikita Mine (Zimbabwe) and now the Sinclair Mine (Western Australia).