Commodities
TertiaryNickel, Iron, Cobalt, Chromium
Commodity typeM
Materials
Other materialsChlorite, Chromite, Gibbsite, Goethite, Hematite, Kaolinite, Magnetite, Quartz, Serpentine
Economic & production
Development statusProspect
Identification
Deposit ID10181995
RegionNA
Data scoreC
Coordinates18.14927, -67.01838
References
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