Mine detail: Metlaoui

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Location: Tunisia, Africa
Lat / long: 34.31594, 8.41843
dep_id: 10207399
mas_id: 7230300001
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Phosphorus-Phosphates
Trace mineral: Aluminum, Calcium, Iron, Magnesite, Chlorine
Operation type: Underground
Development status: Producer
other_matl: Apatite
work_type: Underground
Reporter: Fantel, Richard J.
Year first produced: 1899
disc_yr: 1899
References:
  • Deposit:: AMERICAN EMBASSY TUNISIA, INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK REPORT, 6/9/80.
  • Deposit:: BOYCE, R.L., THE TUNISIAN PHOSPHATE INDUSTRY: TRIP REPORT
  • Deposit:: MARCH 21, 1980
  • Deposit:: BRITISH SULPHUR CORP. LTD., WORLD SURVEY OF PHOSPHATE
  • Deposit:: DEPOSITS, FOURTH EDITION, 1980
  • Deposit:: CAPE, J.J., DEPOSIT EVALUATION, 1981
  • Deposit:: COMPANIE DES PHOSPHATES DE GAFSA, FIVE YEAR PLAN, TABLES FOR
  • Deposit:: YEARS 1978 THROUGH 1984
  • Deposit:: DEVOTO, R.H., AND D.N. STEVENS, URANIFEROUS PHOSPHATE
  • Deposit:: DEPOSITS AND TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS OF URANIUM
  • Deposit:: RECOVERY FROM PHOSPHATE RESOURCES, UNITED STATES AND
  • Deposit:: FREE WORLD, VOL. 1, JUNE 1979
  • Deposit:: INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS, 14TH, LES RESERVES
  • Deposit:: MONDIALES EN PHOSPHATES, 2 VOLUMES, 1926
  • Deposit:: KHAMMOUMA, S., LETTER TO W.F. STOWASSER, JULY 16, 1979
  • Deposit:: LEWIS, ROBERT S., ELEMENTS OF MINING, NEW YORK: JOHN WILEY
  • Deposit:: AND SONS, INC., 1950
  • Deposit:: SRI INTERNATIONAL, CHEMICAL ECONOMICS HANDBOOK, PHOSPHATE
  • Deposit:: ROCK, MARCH 1980
  • Deposit:: STOWASSER, W.F., FIELD TRIP REPORT--TUNISIAN PHOSPHATE ROCK
  • Deposit:: MINING INDUSTRY, NOV. 24, 1976
  • Deposit:: STOWASSER, W.F., MEMORANDUM: FIELD TRIP TO PHOSPHATE
  • Deposit:: PRODUCING MINES IN TUNISIA, DEC. 18, 1979
  • Deposit:: TUNISIA BANKS ON NEW TECHNOLOGY ... P205 PRODUCTION GOALS
  • Deposit:: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, SEPT. 1980.
  • Deposit:: TUNISIA ... PLANT TO DOUBLE PHOSPHATE PRODUCTION ...,
  • Deposit:: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, MAY 1976.
  • Deposit:: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. MRDS, MINERAL RESOURCE DATA SYSTEM.
  • Deposit:: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. MAS, MINERALS AVAILABILITY SYSTEM.
  • Deposit:: SAINFELD, PAUL. THE LEAD-ZINC BEARING DEPOSITS OF TUNISIA.
  • Deposit:: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY. 1956. PP. 150-177.
  • Reserve-Resource:: INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, JULY 1986, PP.20-27.
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