Sangdong Mine

The Sangdong mine located in South Korea is one of the largest tungsten mines in the world. Sangdong Mine was a main business station for tungsten concentrate production of Korea Tungsten Mining Co. (KTMC). The scale and quality of Sangdong tungsten and molybdenum production) drove South Korean economic development after the Korean War. A decade after the closure of the KTMC in 1994, mining rights to the Sangdong mine were acquired by Woulfe Mining Corporation through Sewoo Mining Corporation in 2006. In 2015, Almonty Industries acquired Woulfe Mining Corporation and established Almonty Korea Tungsten Corporation (formerly Sangdong Mining Corporation), which operates as a subsidiary of Almonty Industries.

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