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Douglas Mine

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The Douglas Mine, also known as the Douglas and Echo Mine, is a mineral sands mine near the town of Balmoral, Victoria, Australia. It was established in 2006 to mine rutile and zircon, and then closed in 2012. Watpac estimated that it extracted 7.5 million tonnes of mineral sands from the mine.

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