Kunteyi

potash-bearing brine in China

Geologic information

CountryChina
Location:92.4722, 38.4528
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Site typearea
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 unit92.4722, 38.4528
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Economic information

Production
StatusSmall Production

Reference information

Comments

Location is for Lenghu.

References

Wen Lu, 1998, Chinese industrial minerals: Worcester Park, United Kingdom, Industrial Minerals Information Ltd., 210 p.
Zheng Mianping, 2010, Resources and econ-environmental protection of salt lakes in China: Environmental Earth Science, 10 p.