Minas Gerais
Producer

Patos De Minas

Minas Gerais, Brazil
Phosphorus-Phosphates
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Commodities
PrimaryPhosphorus-Phosphates
Commodity typeN
Deposit
WorkingsSurface
Materials
Other materialsApatite, Carnallite, Chert, Mica, Quartz, Wavellite
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
First production1976
Discovery year1974
Identification
Deposit ID10182841
Alternate namesPirubinhas, Rocinha, Coromandel
RegionSA
Data scoreB
Coordinates-18.31426, -46.91572
References
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