Potash resource Musely #212 (mine) in Ethiopia

Production
Status	Small Past Production
Company	Sainak Coal Allana Potash Corp.
Estimates of reserves or resources
Ore tonnage	prov: 66.28 A, 32.331 B, 61.897 C1+C2Million tonnes
K₂O tonnage	prov: 13.4 A, 6.7 B, 11.8 C1+C2Million tonnes
Grade of K₂O	20.15, 20.7, 19.0% of ore
Data years	1984
Data source	Van Kauwenbergh (2006)

Reference information

Comments

One of Dallol (Danakil) potash deposits; deposit may not be completely explored.

References

Veselinovic-Williams, M., and Frost-Killian, S., 2003, Digital international metallogenic map of Africa: Council for Geoscience, South Africa and Commission for the Geologic Map of the World (CGMW), scale 1:5,000,000, CD-ROM.

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

Garrett, D.E., 1996, Potash; Deposits, processing, properties and uses: New York, Chapman and Hall, 734 p.

Van Kauwenbergh, S.J., 2006, Fertilizer raw material resources of Africa: Muscle Shoals, AL, USA, IFDC, 435 p.