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Malanjkhand Mine, Padritola, Baihar Tehsil, Balaghat District, Madhya Pradesh, India

Latitude: 22°1'N
Longitude: 80°43'E
A copper mine owned by the Hindustan Copper Ltd. An open pit mine billed as the largest hard rock open pit mine in India at 180 meters deep. Capacity is 2 million tons/year ore producing 23,000 tons Cu/year. 60 million tons ore reserves estimated 91984) at 1.24% Cu.

Mineral List

Alunite
Anilite
Antlerite
'Apatite'
Atacamite
Azurite
Biotite
Bornite
Brochantite
Calcite
Cassiterite
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Cobaltite
Copper
Covellite
Cuprite
Delafossite
Digenite
Djurleite
Epidote
Erythrite
Fluorite
Gersdorffite
Goethite
Gold
Hematite
'Hornblende'
Idaite
Magnetite
Malachite
Microcline
Molybdenite
Mooihoekite
Muscovite
Muscovite
var: Sericite

Nantokite
Pyrite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
'Saussurite'
Sphalerite
Tenorite
Titanite
Uraninite


46 entries listed. 40 valid minerals.

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References

- Mining Annual Review (1985): 394.
- Panigrahi, M.K., and Mookherjee, A. (1997): The Malanjkhand copper (+ molybdenum) deposit, India: mineralization from a low-temperature ore-fluid of granitoid affiliation. Mineralium Deposita 32, 133-148.
- Singer, D.A., Berger, V.I., and Moring, B.C. (2008): Porphyry copper deposits of the world: Database and grade and tonnage models, 2008. US Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1155.

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