Mine detail: (Facility) Toyo Besshi Copper Smelter

Previously called 'BesshiToyo Copper Works Smelter'

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Location

Lat / long: 33.94872, 133.24889

Resource(B)

Primary: Copper
Secondary: Arsenic, Sodium, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid
Tertiary: Gypsum-Anhydrite

Production

Operation type: Processing Plant
Development status: Plant
First production started: 1971

Geology

References

MAS5880051001
DEP10191117
Reference{Deposit:: PINCOCK, ALLEN & HOLT, INC.; THE DEVELOPEMENT OF ENGINEERING}{Deposit:: OPERATING AND ENVIRONMENTAL COST DATA FOR INTERNATIONAL}{Deposit:: COPPER SMELTING AND REFINING OPERATIONS - BESHI (TOYO,}{Deposit:: NIIHAMA), JAPAN. BUMINES CONTRACT J0290007; FOR INF.,}{Deposit:: CONTACT S.W. TOWLE, TPO, BUMINES-MAFO, DENVER, CO.}
ReporterTowle, Stewart W.