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stratabound potash-bearing salt in Brazil

Geologic information

CountryBrazil
Location:-36.9703, -10.5224
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Site typemineral occurrence
Deposit typestratabound potash-bearing salt
Evaporite basinSergipe
Basin typemarine rift basin
Geologic unitMuribeca Fm-Ibura Mbr
Age
Mesozoic
Cretaceous
Lower Cretaceous
Aptian
Minimum:Mesozoic-Cretaceous-Lower Cretaceous-Aptian
Maximum:Mesozoic-Cretaceous-Lower Cretaceous-Aptian
Commodities
Minerals
Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Geologic map unit-36.9703, -10.5224
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Economic information

Production
StatusNone
CompanyRio Verde Minerals (2012)

Reference information

References

Rauche, H., 2011, Rio Verde's mineral properties in the Sergipe Basin, Brazil: Erfurt, Germany, ERCOSPAN Ingenieurgesellschaft Geotechnik und Bergbau mbH, 81 p. and appendices.