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Zhabuye

potash-bearing brine in China

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Geologic information

CountryChina
Location:84.0443, 31.3609
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Site typearea
Deposit typepotash-bearing brine
Evaporite basinZhabuye
Basin typecontinental closed basin
Age
Cenozoic
Quaternary
Pleistocene-Holocene
Upper Pleistocene-[recent]
Minimum:Cenozoic-Quaternary-Holocene
Maximum:Cenozoic-Quaternary-Pleistocene-Upper Pleistocene
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Geologic map unit84.0443, 31.3609
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Economic information

Production
StatusNone
CompanyTibet Zabuye High-Tech Lithium Industry Company Ltd. (2009)

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Comments

In the Gangdisi Mountains in the interiorof Tibetan Plateau.

References

Nie, Z., Bu, L., Zheng, M., and Chang, Y., 2009, Crystallization path of salts from brine in Zabuye Salt Lake, Tibet, during isothermal evaporation: Natural Resources and Environmental Issues, v. 15, p. 197-201.
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.
Zhang Jiangfeng, 2009, Present situation and prospects for lithium carbonate production in China: Entrepreneur, May 26, 2009, Web page accessed March 15, 2010, at http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/print/201493065.html. (Also available at http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-201493065.html; and http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-ZGHB200915025.htm. [In Chinese.])
Zheng Mianping, 2010, Resources and econ-environmental protection of salt lakes in China: Environmental Earth Science, 10 p.