Mine detail: Lao Cai

Previously called 'Lao Kay'

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Location: Vietnam, Asia
Lat / long: 22.99938, 103.99971
dep_id: 10207264
mrds_id: I000103
mas_id: 5500000004
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Phosphorus-Phosphates
Operation type: Surface
Development status: Producer
other_matl: Apatite, Mica, Pyrite, Quartz
work_type: Surface
Reporter: Fantel, Richard J.
Year first produced: 1940
disc_yr: 1924
References:
  • Deposit:: MINING ANNUAL REVIEW, 1987, P. 362.
  • Deposit:: INTERNATINOAL MINING, AUGUST 1988, P. 105.
  • Deposit:: INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, 8/91, P. 49.
  • Reserve-Resource:: BRITISH SULPHUR CORPORATION, WORLD SURVEY OF PHOSPHATE
  • Reserve-Resource:: DEPOSITS, FIFTH ED, LONDON, 1987, PP. 206-207.
  • Reserve-Resource:: MINING JOURNAL, SEPTEMBER 15, 1989, P. 216.
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