Commodities
PrimaryManganese
TertiaryIron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica
Commodity typeB
Materials
Other materialsBixbyite, Braunite, Cryptomalene, Hausmanite
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
First production1970
Discovery year1950
Identification
Deposit ID10305141
RegionAF
Data scoreB
Coordinates-27.16332, 22.83482
References
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