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In July 2010, Atlas commenced production at the
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Advanced Metals and in January 2011, the company announced that it would restart tantalum production. Less than a year after it reopened, due to softening global demand, tantalum mining operations ceased at the end of February 2012.
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109:Coordinates
1092:Atlas Iron
1086:Categories
1009:Iron Ridge
1004:Blue Hills
952:Atlas Iron
854:Paraburdoo
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799:Brockman 4
794:Brockman 2
710:Cloudbreak
329:References
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259:region of
170:Production
146:Production
118:21°10′52″S
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422:20 March
394:Tantalum
304:tantalum
282:Overview
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155:Iron ore
151:Products
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382:Wodgina
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257:Pilbara
220:Website
212:Company
186:History
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