If you are going to find a mineable nickel deposit, within the vicinity of Kambalda is certainly the place to do it.
Australia's first nickel boom was sparked by the metal's discovery at Kambalda in 1966, when global demand was on the rise due to the Vietnam War and nickel's traditional use in stainless-steel markets.
The discovery was turned into the Silver Lake mine – the first of 23 nickel mines at Kambalda which records show have produced a combined 1.67 million tonnes of nickel in the past 55 years.
