Commodities
PrimaryPhosphorus-Phosphates
Commodity typeN
Materials
Other materialsCalcite, Collophane, Kaolinite
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
First production1978
Discovery year1964
Identification
Deposit ID10257140
Alternate namesEl Hamra, Kueik
RegionAF
Data scoreB
Coordinates26.26609, 33.95137
References
BRITISH SULPHUR CORP, WORLD SURVEY OF PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS,4TH EDITION, 1980BUNCH, J P, PERSONAL COMMUNICATION, 1981DENHANS, C, PERSONAL COMMUNICATION, 1981DE VOTO, R H AND D N STEVENS, URANIFEROUS PHOSPHATERESOURCES ABD TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS OF URANIUM RECOVERYIRON PHOSPHATE RESOURCES, UNITED STATES AND THE FREEWORLD, EARTH SCIENCES INC, JUNE, 1979MINING ANNUAL REVIEW, 1981WORLD BANK, WORLD PHOSPHATE SURVEY BACKGROUND PAPERS, SEPT1979 (USE ONLY WITH WORLD BANK AUTHORIZATION)WORLD MINING, CATELOG AND DIRECTORY #1980, 1980MINING MAGAZINE, SEPTEMBER, 1972MINING MAGAZINE, VOL 125, NO 3, SEPTEMBER, 1974MINING MAGAZINE, SEPTEMBER, 1976MINING MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 1977, P147ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, JAN, 1971, P74INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, NOV, 1976 P262ND EDITION, 1964BRITISH SULPHUR, LTD. WORLD SURVEY OF PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS.5TH ED., 1987, PP. 161-162.U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. MINERAL RESOURCES DATA SYSTEM (MRDS)1996.F. HABASHI AND F.A. BASSYOUNI. MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE ARABCOUNTRIES. CHEMECON PUB. (QUEBEC). 1982, PP. 18-27.SANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CHEMICAL ECONOMICS HANDBOOK -PHOSPHATE ROCK, MARCH, 1980