Mine detail: Ruseifa

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Location: Jordan, Asia
Lat / long: 31.99901, 36.03472
dep_id: 10255681
mas_id: 5110000006
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Phosphorus-Phosphates
Minor mineral: Uranium
Operation type: Surface
Development status: Past Producer
other_matl: Calcite, Collophane, Gypsum, Quartz
work_type: Surface
Reporter: Fantel, Richard J.
Year first produced: 1943
disc_yr: 1903
References:
  • Deposit:: ABU HASSAN, A., PHOSPHATE ROCK IN JORDAN: ISMA EAST REGIONAL
  • Deposit:: MEETING ON RAW MATERIALS, KUWAIT, FEBRUARY 17-19, 1981.
  • Deposit:: AFCFP QUARTERLY JOURNAL, ISSUE 4, SECOND YEAR, DECEMBER 1980
  • Deposit:: BRITISH SULPHUR CORP., WORLD SURVEY OF PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS,
  • Deposit:: 4TH EDITION, 1980.
  • Deposit:: EARTH SCIENCES, INC., URANIFEROUS PHOSPHATE RESOURCES OF THE
  • Deposit:: FREE WORLD, U.S. DEPT. ENERGY, CONTRACT GJBX 110-79,
  • Deposit:: GRAND JUNCTION 1979, P. 60-62.
  • Deposit:: JONES, G.K., THE INDUSTRIAL MINERALS OF JORDAN, INDUSTRIAL
  • Deposit:: MINERALS, JANUARY 1980
  • Deposit:: JORDAN MINES PHOSPHATE, MINING MAGAZINE, MAY 1981,
  • Deposit:: PP. 376-389.
  • Deposit:: REEVES, J.J., AND SAADI, T.A.K., FACTORS CONTROLLING THE
  • Deposit:: DEPOSITION OF SOME PHOSPHATE BEARING STRATA FROM
  • Deposit:: JORDAN, ECON. GEOL., VOL. 66, 1971, PP. 451-465.
  • Deposit:: RUGG, E.S., JORDAN PREPARES FOR MAJOR PHOSPHATE BOOM,
  • Deposit:: E. & M.J., VOL.166, NO. 7, JULY 1965
  • Deposit:: THE JORDANIAN PHOSPHATE MINING INDUSTRY, RENC.
  • Deposit:: MINING JOURNAL, JUNE 6, 1985, P.120.
  • Deposit:: PHOSPHOROUS AND POTASSIUM, NO. 139, SEPT. 10, 1985, P.20
  • Deposit:: MINING JOURNAL, JUNE 5, 1987, P.120.
  • Deposit:: MINING ANNUAL REVIEW, 1987, P.445
  • Deposit:: STOWASSER, WM. TRIP REPORT BY USBM COMMODITY SPECIALIST
  • Deposit:: TO JORDAN, SEPT. 14-23, 1987
  • Reserve-Resource:: WORLD BANK, 1974.
  • Reserve-Resource:: MINERALS YEARBOOK, USBM, 1982, P. 550.
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