GEMCO

GEMCO is an acronym for The Groote Eylandt Mining Company, a company that was commissioned to mine high grade manganese ore manganese ore.It runs its operation on 84 square kilometers of the Arnhem Land Aboriginal Reserve, which is part of Groote Eylandt, a 2,326 square kilometer island that has a population of 1539.Arnhem Land Groote Eylandt. The company is one of three manganese ore mining companies in Australia. This particular mine site, is on an island which is within the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Arafura Sea, a body of water that lies between Australia and New Guinea. GEMCO uses a mining extraction method called open cut strip mining, as it sends its ore to be smelted at TEMCO (Tasmanian Electro Metallurgical Company). TEMCO, established in 1965, is Australia's only ferroalloy smelter site, situated at Bell Bay, north of Launceston in Tasmania at the other end of the continent. The company extracts roughly 5 million tons of manganese every year.