| Deposit ID | 10280592 |
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| MAS/MILS ID | 7920001046 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | (Facility) Tsumeb Smelter/Refinery |
| Alternate or previous names | Tsumeb Operations Smelter |
| Geographic coordinates: | 17.70147, -19.21374 (WGS84) |
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Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Namibia(country)
Africa(continent)
Land(continent)
| Country |
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| Namibia |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Arsenic Critical | Secondary |
| Cadmium | Secondary |
| Lead, Refiner | Primary |
| (1) | 17.70147, -19.21374 |
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| Operation type | Processing Plant |
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| Development status | Plant |
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Significant | Yes |
| Plant type | Smelter/Refiner |
| Type | Owner-Operator |
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| Owner | Tsumeb Corp. Ltd. |
| Interest | 100 |
| Home office | S W Africa(Namibia) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Year | 1984 | ||||||||||||||
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| Description | Cadmium 40 Mt Cadmium/Yr | ||||||||||||||
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| Year | 1984 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Lead Metal 28930 Mt Lead/Yr | ||||||||||||||
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| Year | 1984 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Arsenic Trioxide 2504 Mt Arsenic Trioxide/Yr | ||||||||||||||
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| Year | 1985 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Lead Metal 38511 Mt Lead/Yr | ||||||||||||||
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| Year | 1985 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Cadmium 58 Mt Cadmium/Yr | ||||||||||||||
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| Year | 1985 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Arsenic Trioxide 2471 Mt Arsenic Trioxide | ||||||||||||||
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| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 7920001046 |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 06-FEB-1995 | Difrancesco, Carl A. | U.S. Bureau of Mines |
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