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Lake Mackay

potash-bearing brine in Australia

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Geologic information

CountryAustralia
Location:128.7576, -22.44191
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Site typedeposit
Deposit typepotash-bearing brine
Evaporite basinMackay
Basin typecontinental closed basin
Age
Cenozoic
Quaternary
Pleistocene(?)-Holocene
Minimum:Cenozoic-Quaternary-Holocene
Maximum:Cenozoic-Quaternary-Pleistocene(?)
Commodities
Minerals
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Geologic map unit128.7576, -22.44191
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Economic information

Production
StatusNone
CompanyReward Minerals (2008)

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Comments

Greater than 20 Mt of contained K2SO4 in brine.

References

Reward Minerals Limited, 2012b, Lake MacKay - WA: Reward Minerals Limited Web page accessed August 22, 2012, at http://www.rewardminerals.com/?page_id=96.Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum, 2008, Mines and mineral deposits (Minedex): Western Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum, downloaded March, 2008, from http://www.dmp.wa.gov.au/3970.aspx.