All you need to know about Antimony…

Along with gold, SXG are exploring for the mineral antimony. Historically, antimony is the second most important metallic commodity in Victoria after gold.

One of antimony’s minerals, stibnite, was used by ancient Egyptians as eye make-up known as ‘khol’.

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Egyptian Hieroglyphic image
Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs dating from about 1890 BC atthe top of this wall painting say: ‘The arrival, bringing stibium.’ Mural drawing: Karl Richard Lepsius.

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