Zhengdong

halokinetic potash-bearing salt in China

Geologic information

CountryChina
Location:101.5167, 22.3667
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Site typemine(?)
Deposit typehalokinetic potash-bearing salt
Evaporite basinSimao
Basin typecontinental rift basin
Geologic unitMengyejing Fm
Age
Mesozoic-Cenozoic
Cretaceous-Paleogene
Upper Cretaceous-Paleocene
Minimum:Cenozoic-Paleogene-Paleocene
Maximum:Mesozoic-Cretaceous-Upper Cretaceous
Commodities
Minerals
Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Lithology
Geologic map unit101.5167, 22.3667
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Economic information

Production
StatusNot Determined

Reference information

References

Kamitani, M., Okumura, K., Teraoka, Y., Miyano, S., and Watanabe, Y., 2007, Mineral resources map of East Asia: Geological Survey of Japan, scale 1:3,000,000.
Shuai Kaiye, 1993, Characteristics of the potash deposits in western Yunnan, China, 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. 205-210.