Mine detail: Sua Pan

Previously called 'Soa Pan'

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Location

Lat / long: -20.66357, 26.00142

Resource(B)

Primary: Sodium, Cobalt, Halite, Bromine
Ore: Brine, Halite, Trona

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: None
Development status: Prospect
First production started: 1991

Geology

Host type:Clay, Mud,Sand and Gravel,Lake Sediments,Evaporite
Tectonic:Makgadikgadi Depression

References

MRDSI000209
DEP10096950
Reference{Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, 1990, PANORAMA: V. (MAY), P. 320-321.}{Deposit:: DE KUN, N., 1987, MINERAL ECONOMICS OF AFRICA: NEW YORK, ELSEVIER, P. 265.}{Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, 1990, PANORAMA: V. 163, NO. 5, P. 323-324.}{Deposit:: INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, 1990, WORLD OF MINERALS: NO. 278, P. 13-14.}{Deposit:: INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, 1989, WORLD OF MINERALS (BOTSWANA): NO. 256, P. 11, 13.}{Deposit:: MANNION, L.E., 1983, SODIUM CARBONATE DEPOSITS, IN LEFOND, S.J., ED., INDUSTRIAL MINERALS AND ROCKS (NONMETALLICS OTHER THAN FUELS), 5TH EDITION: NEW YORK, SOCIETY OF MINING ENGINEERS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING, METALLURGICAL, AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERS, INC., P. 1187-1206.}{Reserve-Resource:: DE KUN, 1987.}
ReporterOrris, Greta J.