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North Parkes Mine is a mine, is mined in the copper, silver and gold in New South Wales in Australia. The mine is located about 27 kilometers north-west of Parkes.

The North Limited started with the construction of the mine in November 1992, 15 years after the ore deposit was discovered in 64.1 million tonnes of ore. Mining commenced in 1993 in the open pit and underground mining in 1997 to 480 meters depth, which was the world's most productive underground mining with an automated delivery time. In 2000, the mine reached its highest productivity with a production rate of 50,000 tonnes of ore per employee.

The copper concentrate containing about 35 % copper, 12.05 grams of gold per tonne and 121.6 grams of silver per tonne. It is associated with Road Trains for Goonumbla Rail 13 km away, loaded into containers and taken from there to Port Kembla to Wollongong to subsequently smelters in Japan (67% ), Australia shipped ( 14%) and other countries ( 19%) to become.

The 160 employees of the mine live in the city park, which has about 12,000 inhabitants. Since 2000, 80 % of the shares, the British-Australian Rio Tinto Group and 20 % by the Japanese Sumitomo Group.