Tantalum AIMR 2011 Australian Mines Atlas
Throughout 2009 and 2010, the company continued to process tantalum pentoxide (Ta 2 O 5) from its ore stockpiles. Although the initial recommencement mining rate will be at 700 000 pounds a year, the Wodgina mine has a capacity to produce million pounds of Ta 2 O 5 a year from tantalumbearing pegmatite ores at the Mount Cassiterite and South Tinstone open cut mines.