Mine detail: Kara Tau Deposits

Previously called 'Kara Tau Phosphate BasinKaratau Group'

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Location: Kazakhstan, Asia
Lat / long: 43.14811, 70.50075
dep_id: 10134223
mas_id: 4590000131
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Phosphorus-Phosphates
Operation type: Surface-Underground
Development status: Producer
other_matl: Apatite
work_type: Surface, Underground
Reporter: Fantel, Richard J.
Year first produced: 1942
disc_yr: 1936
References:
  • 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.
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