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West Brother Island (Tai Mo To) Graphite Mine

November 12, 2022 Hugh Farmer Articles, Mines, Quarries + Dredging

Hugh Farmer: The mine was in the bottom left hand (SW) corner of the island (apologies for a fuzzy picture that resembles shark’s fin soup) West Brother Island lies to the north east of HK International Airport. I have read an account that the graphite was discovered in the early 1950s by fishermen who were looking for sandstone to make […]

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Two HK Mines

January 11, 2013 Hugh Farmer Articles, Mines, Quarries + Dredging

Despite its small area, Hong Kong has a relatively large number of minerals. A large number of these have been prospected, a lovely term conjuring up images of the Klondike gold rush, and I estimate about 25 actually commercially exploited. I have recently posted on Gwulo.com a brief history of two of these mines neither of which, should you be […]

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