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year. The remoteness and that much of the island is a charmless open phosphate mine are two strong reasons for this. In the local language the island...

German engineers began exploiting the islands' deposits of bauxite and phosphate, and a rich harvest in copra was made. World War I intervened and the...

day-to-day affairs. Makatea in French Polynesia is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean, the others are Banaba (Ocean Island)...

harbor. The town's first population boom occurred in the 1880s. In 1883, phosphate was discovered in the area, spurring the development of the mining and...

Minerals resources such as kaolin, gypsum, limestone, laterite, red mills, phosphate both yellow and green, shade clay, sand etc., are available in commercial...

Sea coast, intended to export phosphates from Kharga's deposits. But by the time it was completed the price of phosphates had dropped, the deposits were...

town, which is industrial. To its south is the port, which ships out phosphates from the nearby mines. To the north, the hotel and beach strip straggles...

corrosion resistance results from a layer of crystalline iron hydrogen phosphate forming on the high phosphorus content iron, which protects it from the...

26.532533.9211112 Umm el-Ḥuweiṭāt, a ghost city, formerly a center for phosphate mining, 20 km south of Safāgā. 26.10907234.2759973 el-Quṣeir, famous for...