Assessment tract permissive of stratabound potash-bearing salt in Russian Federation
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Country | Russian Federation | ||||
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Deposit type | stratabound potash-bearing salt | ||||
Evaporite basin | East Siberian | ||||
Basin type | intracratonic basin | ||||
Geologic unit | Angara Formation, Belsk Formation, Tolchaban Formation, Usolye Formation | ||||
Tectonic setting | craton | ||||
Age | Paleozoic Cambrian Cambrian Series 2
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Commodities | |||||
Minerals | Potassium minerals: | ||||
Notes: | Area in East Siberia that may be underlain by Early Cambrian potash-bearing salt. |
Known K sites? | Yes |
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Mining? | No |
Exploration? | No |
Identified resources? | Yes |
Feature type | salt |
Quality of information | D: The quantity, quality, type, and scale of data available for the tract and any known salt or potash mineralization is not as good as that for C-ranked tracts but is better than E-ranked tracts. |
Assessment year | 2009 |
Assessment depth | 3km |
Assessors | Greta J. Orris (USGS) |
Qualitative assessment | R4: Both mineral economic and geologic factors exist that could negatively impact development. |
Tract delineation | The East Siberian tract represents the area of Cambrian salt in the East Siberian Basin as identified using the mineragenic map of Rundkvist (2001) and description and figure of salt extent of Ulmishek (2004) in conjunction with descriptions of saltextent in Russian literature (Zharkov, 1984). |
Nearby data | Russia |
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