Commodities
PrimaryManganese
Commodity typeM
Materials
Other materialsBixbyite, Braunite, Cryptomalene, Hausmanite
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
First production1976
Discovery year1965
Identification
Deposit ID10183101
MRDS IDW031002
Alternate namesMiddleplaats Mn Mine
RegionAF
Data scoreB
Coordinates-27.32991, 22.91822
References
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