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Salar de Olaroz

potash-bearing brine in Argentina

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Geologic information

CountryArgentina
Location:-66.6991, -23.414
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Site typedeposit
Deposit typepotash-bearing brine
Evaporite basinOlaroz-Cauchari
Basin typecontinental closed basin
Age
Cenozoic
Quaternary
Pleistocene-Holocene
Minimum:Cenozoic-Quaternary-Holocene
Maximum:Cenozoic-Quaternary-Pleistocene
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Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Lithology
Geologic map unit-66.6991, -23.414
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Economic information

Production
StatusNone
CompanyOrocobre Ltd. (2010)
Estimates of reserves or resources
K2O tonnage9.24 infMillion tonnes
Data sourceKing (2010)

Reference information

Comments

Joint venture of Orocobre with Toyota Tsusho to develop Li and K.

References

King, Mark, 2010, Inferred resource estimation of lithium and potassium at the Cauchari and Olaroz Salars, Jujuy Province, Argentina: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Groundwater Insight, 108 p.
Orocobre Limited, 2010, Olaroz lithium project: Orocobre Limited Web page accessed January 3, 2010, at http://www.orocobre.com.au/Projects_Olaroz.htm.