Not all new sources of industrial minerals supply are greenfield sites. Increasingly, as mineral processing technology advances, developers are looking at converting old mining tailings into new, high-value feedstocks. In Australia, Creswick Quartz Pty Ltd is expecting to bring on stream a new source of high quality quartz from the waste tailings of late 19th century alluvial gold mines in central-west Victoria. Creswick Quartz, founded in 1996, is a privately owned company operating at Creswick in Victoria, Australia.
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