Commodities
PrimaryNickel
Commodity typeM
Materials
Other materialsChalcedony, Chlorite, Garnierite, Goethite, Magnesite, Montmorillonite, Olivine, Opal, Quartz, Serpentine, Wad
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
First production1978
Discovery year1900
Identification
Deposit ID10231215
MRDS IDW029650
Alternate namesNo Alternate Names, Soroako
RegionAS
Data scoreB
Coordinates-2.49817, 121.49931
References
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