Cannington Mine

Cannington mine
Location
State	Queensland
Country	Australia
Production
Products	Silver; Lead; Zinc;
Type	Underground
History
Opened	1997
Owner
Company	South32

The Cannington Silver and Lead Mine is an Australian underground mine located in north-west Queensland, in the Shire of McKinlay, about 200 kilometres (124 mi) southeast of Mount Isa. The deposit was discovered by BHP in 1990.^[1] The mine was the supplier of silver for the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics and the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics.^[2] Cannington takes its name from the pastoral property near the deposit.

^ Walters, Stephen; Skrzeczynski, Bob; Whiting, Tom; Bunting, Frank; Arnold, Gary (2002). "Discovery and Geology of the Cannington Ag-Pb-Zn Deposit, Mount Isa Eastern Succession, Australia: Development and Application of an Exploration Model for Broken Hill-Type Deposits". In Goldfar, Richard J.; Nielsen, Richard L. (eds.). Integrated methods for discovery: Global exploration in the 21st Century. Littleton, Colorado: Society of Economic Geologists. pp. 93–116. ISBN 978-1-887483-91-9. Abstract Archived 2011-02-25 at the Wayback Machine
^ "McKinlay". Tourism & Events Queensland. Retrieved 24 February 2020.

[Walters-2002-1] Walters, Stephen; Skrzeczynski, Bob; Whiting, Tom; Bunting, Frank; Arnold, Gary (2002). "Discovery and Geology of the Cannington Ag-Pb-Zn Deposit, Mount Isa Eastern Succession, Australia: Development and Application of an Exploration Model for Broken Hill-Type Deposits". In Goldfar, Richard J.; Nielsen, Richard L. (eds.). Integrated methods for discovery: Global exploration in the 21st Century. Littleton, Colorado: Society of Economic Geologists. pp. 93–116. ISBN 978-1-887483-91-9. Abstract Archived 2011-02-25 at the Wayback Machine

[2] "McKinlay". Tourism & Events Queensland. Retrieved 24 February 2020.

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