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Chemical Mining (FFN_83)
DGIF baseline 2026-1, the latest. Earlier baselines: timemap.
RDF: ffn_83.ttl
- Name
chemicalMining- Attribute
- FFN Feature Function
- Definition
- The mining and quarrying of chemicals (for example: potassium salts or native sulphur) or mineral fertilizers (for example: guano).
- Description
- Includes, for example: mining of natural phosphates and natural potassium salts; mining of native sulphur; extraction and preparation of pyrites and pyrrhotite, except roasting; mining of natural barium sulphate and carbonate (barytes and witherite), natural borates, natural magnesium sulphates (kieserite); mining of earth colours, fluorspar and other minerals valued chiefly as a source of chemicals; and guano mining.
- Accepted
- 2013-10-18
- Allowed for
- RWOI terms naming it
Source: DGIF 2026-1 QEA model, DGIWG. Standard: DGIWG 206-3. Licence: CC BY 4.0, © DGIWG.