Commodities
PrimaryManganese
TertiaryIron, Magnesite, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica
Commodity typeB
Materials
Other materialsBixbyite, Braunite, Cryptomalene, Hausmanite, Jacobsite
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
First production1973
Identification
Deposit ID10304745
MRDS IDW028267
Alternate namesWessels Mine
RegionAF
Data scoreB
Coordinates-27.16332, 22.83482
References
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