Dachaidan

potash-bearing brine in China

Geologic information

CountryChina
Location:95.23, 37.83
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Site typemine
Deposit typepotash-bearing brine
Evaporite basinQinghai
Basin typecontinental closed basin
Age
Cenozoic
Quaternary
Pleistocene-Holocene
Upper Pleistocene-[recent]
Minimum:Cenozoic-Quaternary-Holocene
Maximum:Cenozoic-Quaternary-Pleistocene-Upper Pleistocene
Commodities
Minerals
Potassium minerals:
Geologic map unit95.23, 37.83
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Economic information

Production
StatusActive Production

Reference information

References

Gao Shiyang, Yang Zhengdao, and Huang Shijiang, 1993, Recovery of Na2SO4, K2SO4, boric acid and lithium salt from Da Chaidan Salt Lake brine, in Kakihana, H., Hardy, H.R., Jr., Hoshi, T., and Toyokura, K., eds., Seventh symposium on salt: New York, Elsevier, Seventh Symposium on Salt, Kyoto, April 6-9, 1992 [Proceedings], v. 1, p. 555-560.
Yu, G., Harrison, S.P., and Xue, B., 2001, Lake status records from China; Data base documentation: Max-Planck-Institut fur Biogeochemie Technical Report 4, 243 p.