Producer

El Hasa/El Abiad

Jordan
Phosphorus-Phosphates
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Commodities
PrimaryPhosphorus-Phosphates
Commodity typeN
Deposit
WorkingsSurface
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
First production1963
Discovery year1903
Identification
Deposit ID10304384
Alternate namesEl Hasa, El Hasa/ El Abiad, El Abiuth, Wadi El Abiya0, El HassaEl Abiad, Wadi El Abiuth, Quatrana
RegionAS
Data scoreB
Coordinates30.81577, 36.00141
References
ARAB FEDERATION CHEMICAL FERTILIZATION PRODUCERS QUARTERLYJOURNAL, ISSUE 4, SECOND YEAR, DECEMBER 1980.BRITISH SULPHUR CORP., WORLD SURVEY OF PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS,4TH EDITION, 1980.COPPENS, R., BASHIR, S., AND RICHARD, P., RADIOACTIVITY OFEL HASA PHOSPHATES, A PRELIMINARY STUDY: MINERALIUMDEPOSITA, VOL. 12, 1977, PP. 189-196.EARTH SCIENCES, INC., URANIFEROUS PHOSPHATE RESOURCES OF THEFREE WORLD, U.S. DEPT. ENERGY, CONTRACT GJBX 110-79,GRAND JUNCTION, 1979, P. 60-62EL HASA AND ABIAD, WORLD MINING, OCT. 1979HASSAN, A. ABU, PHOSPHATE ROCK IN JORDAN, ISMA MIDDLE EASTREGIONAL MEETING, FEBRUARY 1981I.B.R.D., TERMS OF REFERENCE OF EL HASA, 1975JONES, G.K., THE INDUSTRIAL MINERALS OF JORDAN, INDUSTRIALMINERALS, JAN. 1980JORDAN MINES PHOSPHATE, MINING MAGAZINE, PP. 376-389,MAY 1981.JORDAN PREPARED FOR MAJOR PHOSPHATE BOOM, E &M.J., VOL 166,NO. 7, JULY 1965.THE JORDANIAN PHOSPHATE MINING INDUSTRY, RECENT DEVELOPMENTSAT EL HASA AND FUTURE PLANS, PHOS. & POT., NO. 34,MARCH/APRIL, 1968.REEVES, J.J. AND SAADI, T.A.K., FACTORS CONTROLLING THEDEPOSITION OF SOME PHOSPHATE BEARING STRATA FROMJORDAN, ECON. GEOL., VOL. 66, 1971, PP. 451-465.INDUSTRIAL MINERALS. MARCH 1980, PP. 103-109.MINING MAGAZINE. MARCH, 1980, PP.205