Abstract
The reserve base is 130000 tonnes. Selenium occurs as a byproduct with copper, and the above figures only cover the estimated content of economic copper deposits. Substantial resources exist in association with other metals and coal deposits and in currently uneconomic copper deposits.
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© 1994 Phillip Crowson
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Crowson, P. (1994). Selenium. In: Minerals Handbook 1994–95. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13431-1_36
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