Commodities
PrimaryPhosphorus-Phosphates
Commodity typeN
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
First production1978
Discovery year1899
Identification
Deposit ID10232534
RegionAF
Data scoreB
Coordinates34.38253, 8.46843
References
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