Mine detail: Sua Pan

Previously called 'Soa Pan'

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Location: Central, Botswana, Africa
Lat / long: -20.66357, 26.00142
dep_id: 10096950
mrds_id: I000209
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Sodium, Cobalt, Halite, Bromine
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Prospect
ore: Brine, Halite, Trona
Reporter: Orris, Greta J.
hrock_type: Clay, Mud,Sand and Gravel,Lake Sediments,Evaporite
tectonic: Makgadikgadi Depression
Year first produced: 1991
References:
  • Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, 1990, PANORAMA: V. (MAY), P. 320-321.
  • Deposit:: DE KUN, N., 1987, MINERAL ECONOMICS OF AFRICA: NEW YORK, ELSEVIER, P. 265.
  • Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, 1990, PANORAMA: V. 163, NO. 5, P. 323-324.
  • Deposit:: INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, 1990, WORLD OF MINERALS: NO. 278, P. 13-14.
  • Deposit:: INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, 1989, WORLD OF MINERALS (BOTSWANA): NO. 256, P. 11, 13.
  • Deposit:: MANNION, L.E., 1983, SODIUM CARBONATE DEPOSITS, IN LEFOND, S.J., ED., INDUSTRIAL MINERALS AND ROCKS (NONMETALLICS OTHER THAN FUELS), 5TH EDITION: NEW YORK, SOCIETY OF MINING ENGINEERS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING, METALLURGICAL, AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERS, INC., P. 1187-1206.
  • Reserve-Resource:: DE KUN, 1987.
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