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Mamut Mine
 Landscape of the abandoned mine. | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
  Mamut Mine Location of the mine in Malaysia. | |
| Location | Ranau District |
| State | Sabah |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Coordinates | 6°1′37.7″N 116°39′21.0″E / 6.027139°N 116.655833°E |
| Production | |
| Products | Copper, with some gold and silver[1] |
| Production | 2.1 million tonnes of concentrates containing 520,000 copper, 39 tonnes of gold and 255 tonnes of silver mined from 1975 until its closure in 1999[1] |
| Type | Open-pit mine |
| Greatest depth | 500 metres |
| History | |
| Opened | 1975 |
| Closed | 1999 |
| Owner | |
| Company | Mamut Copper Mining Sdn Bhd |
Mamut Mine (Malay: Lombong Mamut) is an abandoned open-pit quarry mine located in the Ranau District of Sabah, Malaysia, where from 1975 to 1999, various minerals, primarily copper, including some gold and silver, were mined. The mine is known as Malaysia's only copper mine. It came to public attention due to the major environmental harm it caused.[2][3]
- ^ a b Amarjit Kaur; Ian Metcalfe (12 February 1999). The Shaping of Malaysia. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-349-27079-8.
- ^ "Overview". Malaysian Minerals. Archived from the original on 28 August 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
Malaysia no longer produces copper and silver (as a byproduct of copper mining) because the country's only copper mine the Mamut Mine near Ranau, Sabah, ceased operations in October 1999.
- ^ Marcus Jopony; Felix Tongkul (2009). "Acid Mine Drainages at Mamut Copper Mine, Sabah, Malaysia" (PDF). Borneo Science. S2CID 8490329. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 August 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2019 – via Semantic Scholar.
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