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Suldrup

halokinetic potash-bearing salt in Denmark

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CountryDenmark
Location:9.6333, 56.85
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Site typestructure
Deposit typehalokinetic potash-bearing salt
Evaporite basinZechstein
Basin typeintracratonic basin
Geologic unitZechstein Group
Salt structureSuldrup
Age
Paleozoic
Permian
Guadalupian-Lopingian
Roadian-Wordian-Capitanian-Wuchiapingian-Changhsingian
Minimum:Paleozoic-Permian-Lopingian-Changhsingian
Maximum:Paleozoic-Permian-Guadalupian-Roadian
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Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Notes:3 potash beds; main bed is 7-13 m thick with 6-6.5 percent K2O and 15-30 percent kieserite (Mg sulfate); salts are contorted and metamorphosed.
Geologic map unit9.6333, 56.85
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Depth610 (K2)m
Production
StatusNone

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References

Commission for the Geological Map of the World, 1973b, Carte metallogenique de l’Europe; Liste de gites mineraux, feuille 5 [Metallogenic map of Europe; list of mineral deposits, sheet 5]; Europe Centre (PRAGUE): Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres and United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, 32 p.
Fabricus, J., 1987, Geochemical investigation of potassium-magnesium chloride mineralization of Zechstein 2 salt, Mors Dome, Denmark; Microthermometry on solid inclusions in quartz crystals: Danmarks Geologiske Undersogelse Serie A, no. 19, 48 p.
Sorensen, H., Nielsen, B.L., and Jacobsen, F.L., 1978, Denmark and Greenland, in Bowie, S.H.U., Kvalheim, A., and Haslam, H.W., eds., Mineral deposits of Europe, v. 1; Northwest Europe: London, The Institution of Mining and Metallurgy and The Mineralogical Society, p. 251-261.
Vokes, F.M., 1978, Introduction, in Bowie, S.H.U., Kvalheim, A., and Haslam, H.W., eds., Mineral deposits of Europe, v. 1; Northwest Europe: London, The Institution of Mining and Metallurgy and The Mineralogical Society, p. 1-38.