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Manantenina mine

mine in Madagascar

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ16971680 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Manantenina mine is a large mine located in the southern part of Madagascar in Anosy Region. Manantenina represents one of the largest bauxite reserve in Madagascar and one of the largest in Africa, having estimated reserves of 165 million tonnes grading 41% aluminium oxide.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 45-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Manantenina, mine and Madagascar can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as mine in Madagascar. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Manantenina mine” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.