Bauxite Australia

Occurrence in Australia with commodity Aluminum
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10068687
MRDS ID W001902
Record type Site
Current site name Bauxite Australia

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 146.92883, -2.07822 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Australia(country)

Australia(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Australia

Comments on the location information

  • LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE MEASURED THROUGH CENTER

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Aluminum Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bauxite Ore

Analytical data

Result ALUMINA ABOUT 50%

Nearby scientific data

(1) 146.92883, -2.07822

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Manus Is/Admiralty Islands

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, BUREAU OF MINERAL RESOURCES, GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS, 1965, ALUMINIUM, (EXTRACT FROM AUSTRALIAN MINERAL INDUSTRY: THE MINERAL DEPOSITS), BULL. NO. 72, 29 P., ILLUS

  • Reserve-Resource

    GEN. REF. F1

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1973 Bannigan, Jane L. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.