Company type | Public |
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Industry | Mining |
Founded | 28 August 1981 |
Founder | Peter & Chris Lalor |
Defunct | 2006 |
Fate | Administration |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | John Leevers – MD/CEO Peter Lalor – Chairman Chris Lalor – Executive director |
Products | Gold, tantalum |
Production output | Tantalum: 2.29 million lb (1.04 million kg) Gold: 521,081 ozt (16,207.4 kg) |
Sons of Gwalia was a Western Australian mining company that mined gold, tantalum, spodumene, lithium and tin. It was Australia's third-largest gold producer and controlled more than half the world's production of tantalum,[1] before entering administration in August 2004[2] following a financial collapse.