Queens Mine Complex

The Queens mine originally opened in the early 1900s by the British, however when the British colonial period ended in 1948 the mine was abandoned. The mountain in which the Queen’s Mine is situated in is also referred to as ‘the graphite mountain’. Graphite veins run in an East-West direction and the lower in depths the thicker the graphite vein becomes. Veins can measure many meters in thickness and ‘pockets’ of graphite can be as large as detached houses – the miners call these pockets ‘Mine-rang-Aliya’ which means ‘Graphite Elephant’. The mine was recently operated by RS Queens Mine, and significant geophysics and drilling was undertaken to guide the underground mine development. RS reported graphite extraction from developed stopes