Commodities
PrimaryManganese
TertiaryIron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Aluminum
Commodity typeB
Materials
Other materialsBixbyite, Braunite, Cryptomalene, Hausmanite, Jacobsite
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
First production1941
Identification
Deposit ID10183225
MRDS IDISM0171
RegionAF
Data scoreB
Coordinates-27.16332, 22.83482
References
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