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Iacobeni mine

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Location
  
Iacobeni

Country
  
Romania

Financial year
  
2008

Opened
  
1782

Commune
  
Suceava County

Products
  
Copper, Manganese

Company
  
MinBucovina

Production
  
70,000 tonnes of manganese

The Iacobeni mine is a large mine in the north of Romania in Suceava County, 96 km southwest of Suceava and 340 km north of the capital, Bucharest. Iacobeni represents the third largest copper reserve in Romania having estimated reserves of 200 million tonnes of ore grading 0.4% copper. The mine also has one of the largest manganese reserves in Romania estimated at 2.5 million tonnes of ore with an annual production of around 70,000 tonnes.

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Iacobeni mine Wikipedia