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Lanigan

stratabound potash-bearing salt in Canada

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Geologic information

CountryCanada
Location:-105.2086, 51.8535
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Site typemine
Deposit typestratabound potash-bearing salt
Evaporite basinElk Point
Basin typeintracratonic basin
Geologic unitPrairie Evaporite-Patience Lake Mbr
Age
Paleozoic
Devonian
Middle Devonian
Givetian
Minimum:Paleozoic-Devonian-Middle Devonian-Givetian
Maximum:Paleozoic-Devonian-Middle Devonian-Givetian
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Potassium minerals:
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Lithology
Geologic map unit-105.2086, 51.8535
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Economic information

Depth985-1077m
Average grade23% K2O
Production
StatusActive Production (2009)
CompanyPotash Corp. (2010)
Ore tonnage146Million tonnes
K2O tonnage29.5Million tonnes
Grade of K2O20.2% of ore
Data sourceMoore and others (2010c)
Estimates of reserves or resources
Ore tonnage1969 prov+prob, 7369 meas+ind+infMillion tonnes
K2O tonnage496 prov+prob, 1731 meas+ind+infMillion tonnes
Grade of K2O25.2, 23.5% of ore
Data sourceMoore and others (2010c)

Reference information

Comments

All stated production, reserves, and resources in Patience Lake Mbr.

References

British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 1979, World survey of potash resources (3d ed.): London, British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 138 p.
Moore, G., Danyluk, T.K., Franklin, B., Prugger, A., and VanderMost, A., 2010c, National Instrument 43-101 technical report on Lanigan potash deposit (KLSA-001), Saskatchewan, Canada: Saskatoon, Sask., Potash Corporation of Sakatchewan Inc., 65 p.
Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, 2009, Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 2008: Washington, D.C., U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Web page accessed September 2009, at http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/855931/000090956709000190/o53216e10vk.htm.
Roskill Information Services Ltd., 1989, The economics of potash (2d ed.): London, Roskill Information Services Ltd., 121 p.
Saskatchewan Energy and Mines, 1991, Mineral resources of Saskatchewan: Saskatchewan Energy and Mines Miscellaneous Report 91-5, 76 p.
Smith, M., 1982, Potash; Optimism prevails despite market gloom: Industrial Minerals, no. 176, p. 45-51.
Worsley, Neil, and Fuzesy, Anne, 1979, The potash-bearing members of the Devonian Prairie Evaporite of southeastern Saskatchewan, south of the mining area: Economic Geology, v. 74, no. 2, p. 377-388.