Potash resource Qarhan Salt Plain #140 (deposit) in China

Production
Status	Active Production
Estimates of reserves or resources
K₂O tonnage	1) 145; 2) 440Million tonnes
Data source	1) Industrial Minerals (2001b); 2) Zhang and others (2009)

Reference information

Comments

Contains at least 9 shallow perennial saline lakes.

References

Industrial Minerals, 2001b, Qinghai potash progress: Industrial Minerals, no. 407, p. 77.

Lowenstein, T.K., Spencer, R.J., and Pengxi, Z., 1989, Origin of ancient potash evaporites; Clues from the modern nonmarine Qaidam Basin of western China: Science, v. 245, no. 1090-1092.

Warren, J., 1999, Evaporites; Their evolution and economics: Malden, Mass., Blackwell Science, 438 p.

Wen Lu, 1998, Chinese industrial minerals: Worcester Park, United Kingdom, Industrial Minerals Information Ltd., 210 p.

Yang Qian, 1986, The geological characteristics of the potash deposit of the Qarhan inland salt lake in Qaidam Basin, China, in Workshop on Occurrence, Exploration and Development of Fertilizer Minerals, Fertilizer minerals in Asia and the Pacific: Bangkok, Thailand, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Mineral concentrations and hydrocarbon accumulations in the ESCAP region, v. 1, p. 181-190.

Zhang, F., Zhang, W., Ma, W., and others, eds., 2009, The chemical fertilizer industry in China- A review and its outlook: Paris, France, International Fertilizer Industry Association, 201 p.