Commodities
PrimaryPotassium
Commodity typeN
Materials
Other materialsAnhydrite, Carnallite, Halite, Sylvanite
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
First production1984
Discovery year1966
Identification
Deposit ID10207088
Alternate namesCarmopolis
RegionSA
Data scoreB
Coordinates-10.49784, -37.19888
References
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