Commodities
PrimaryPotassium
Commodity typeN
Materials
Other materialsHalite, Sylvanite, Sylvite
Economic & production
Development statusPlant
First production1968
Identification
Deposit ID10278789
Alternate namesVanscoy, Vade
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates51.99997, -107.2508
References
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