Commodities
SecondarySilica
TertiaryAluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Magnesite, Calcium, Iron, Manganese
Commodity typeB
Materials
Other materialsBixbyite, Braunite, Cryptomalene, Hausmanite, Jacobsite
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
Discovery year1954
Identification
Deposit ID10134841
MRDS IDISM0171
Alternate namesMamatwan Mine
RegionAF
Data scoreB
Coordinates-27.36331, 23.00153
References
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