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Title: A phosphate deposit mining site, atoll of Makatea
Creator: Molet
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: 102 boulevard Arago - 75014 Paris, France
Défap - Service protestant de mission (Département évangélique français d’action apostolique)
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/contact.html
Description: A phosphate deposit mining site, atoll of Makatea
Workers collecting the phosphated sand
Wooden footbridges allow to circulate through féo (columns of limestone of coral origin) which remain after we removed the sand.
Comment : The atoll of Makatea was for a long time an economic driver for the French Polynesia region because of its large phosphate deposits. These were mined by the CFPO (Compagnie Française des Phosphates de l'Océanie) from 1917 until depletion of resources in 1966.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : black-and-white positive, on paper, 13.2x12.8 cm
13.2x12.8 cm (sup.)
photographs
Identifier: IMP-DEFAP_PFPP179-15083_2.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-88802
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_PFPP179-15083_2.jpg
Subject: Mining
Soils
Indigenous populations
Manual workers
Place: French Polynesia
Makatea (French Polynesia)
Tuamotu Archipelago
Oceania
Source: SMEP/PF.PP.179-15083 [File]
Relation: Défap - Service protestant de mission
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Défap - Service protestant de mission, Paris, ca. 1880-1971

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