Mine detail: Kara Tau Deposits

Previously called 'Kara Tau Phosphate BasinKaratau Group'

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Location

Lat / long: 43.14811, 70.50075

Resource(N)

Primary: Phosphorus-Phosphates
Other material: Apatite
Discovery year: 1936

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Development status: Producer
First production started: 1942

Geology

References

MAS4590000131
DEP10134223
Reference{Deposit:: BRITISH SULPHUR CORPORATION, WORLD SURVEY OF PHOSPHATE}{Deposit:: DEPOSITS, FIFTH ED., 1987, PP. 224, 237-239.}{Deposit:: E & MJ, SOVIET BUREAUCRATS SQUABBLE OVER USE OF}{Deposit:: PHOSPHATE ROCK, APRIL 1980.}{Deposit:: E & MJ, RUSSIAN MINING SECTO PROBLEMS NEGLECTED BY}{Deposit:: BUREAUCRATS(PRAVDA), DECEMBER 1980, P. 13.}{Deposit:: ISMA, NEWS ITEM REGARDING PHOSPHATES AT OKTYNBINSK, USSR,}{Deposit:: 1981}{Deposit:: MINING ANNUAL REVIEW, EASTERN EUROPE PHOSPHATE, 1981,}{Deposit:: PP. 590-591}{Deposit:: OFFICIAL STANDARD NAMES, U.S.S.R., VOL. II, C-J, UNITED}{Deposit:: STATES BOARD ON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES. PAGE 329.}{Reserve-Resource:: STRISHKOV, E.M., 1977, MINERAL INDUSTRIES OF THE USSR,}{Reserve-Resource:: BUREAU OF MINES, US DEPT. OF INTERIOR, PUBLICATION MP-2,}{Reserve-Resource:: 19PP.}
ReporterFantel, Richard J.