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Named operations: the orebody each one sits on, who runs it, what comes out and what comes out with it. Almost nothing is mined alone — most metals arrive as somebody else’s by-product.

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1 operations. Operator and ownership are as publicly reported by the operators; scale is described rather than asserted with a production figure unless the operator publishes one.

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Khouribga Oulad Abdoun Basin Morocco OCP GroupOpen pit Sedimentary phosphoritePhosphate Rock 1921

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Khouribga

Part of the largest phosphate reserve base in the world.

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