Commodities
TertiaryFluorine-Fluorite, Iron
Commodity typeB
Materials
Other materialsActinolite, Augite, Calcite, Chlorite, Feldspar, Gypsum, Hematite, Kaolin, Magnetite, Phlogopite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Sericite
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
First production1949
Discovery year1902
Identification
Deposit ID10174017
Alternate namesIron Mountain Claims, Stokes Iron Mine, Phelps Stokes Iron Deposit
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates38.88712, -117.83014
References
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