Commodities
PrimaryCopper
SecondarySelenium
Commodity typeM
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
First production1906
Discovery year1903
Identification
Deposit ID10256246
MRDS IDW007957
Alternate namesCampbell, Artonville, Spence, Harper
RegionAF
Data scoreB
Coordinates-22.32677, 30.05138
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