Chelkar

halokinetic potash-bearing salt in Kazakhstan

Geologic information

CountryKazakhstan
Location:51.699, 50.5656
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Site typestructure
Deposit typehalokinetic potash-bearing salt
Evaporite basinPricaspian
Basin typepolyphasic basin
Geologic unitIren Fm or equivalent
Age
Paleozoic
Permian
Cisuralian
Kungurian
Minimum:Paleozoic-Permian-Cisuralian-Kungurian
Maximum:Paleozoic-Permian-Cisuralian-Kungurian
Commodities
Minerals
Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Notes:14.5-44.3 percent K2O in beds 2-35 m thick in one part of the deposit.
Geologic map unit51.699, 50.5656
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Economic information

Average grade14.5-44.3% K2O
Production
StatusNone
CompanyFortis Mining Inc. (2011)
Estimates of reserves or resources
Ore tonnage500 estMillion tonnes
K2O tonnage115 estMillion tonnes
Grade of K2O23% of ore
Data sourceGarrett (1996)

Reference information

References

Nokleberg, W.J., Bawiec, W.J., Doebrich, J.L., Lipin, B.R., Miller, R.J., Orris, G.J., and Zientek, M.L., 2005, Geology and nonfuel mineral deposits of Greenland, Europe, Russia, and northern central Asia: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report OF 2005-1294D, 173 p., accessed September 6, 2012, at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1294/d/of2005-1294d.pdf.
British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 1984, World survey of potash resources (4th ed.): London, British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 145 p.
Fortis Mining Ltd., 2011a, Chelkarskaya: Melbourne, Australia, Fortis Mining Ltd. Web page accessed September 17, 2011, at http://www.fortismining.com.au/fortis_chelkarskaya.html.
Garrett, D.E., 1996, Potash; Deposits, processing, properties and uses: New York, Chapman and Hall, 734 p.
Komissarova, I.N., 1981, Vydeleniye kaliyenosnykh zon v predelakh Prikaspiyskoy vpadiny na osnove paleotektonicheskikh dannykh [Evolution of the potash-bearing zone in the vicinity of the Pricaspian Depression on the basis of paleotectonic data], in Yanshin, A.L., and Zharkov, M.A., eds., Stroyeniye i usloviya formirovaniya mestorozhdeniy kaliynykh soley [The structure and formation conditions of potash salt deposits]: Novosibirsk, USSR, Izd. Nauka, Sibirsk. Otdel., p. 126-133.
Natapov, L.M., Egorov, A.Y., Rodnov, Y.N., R., and Belkina, I.L., 2001, in Rundkvist, D.V., ed., Mineragenetic map of Russian Federation and adjacent states (within the boundaries of former USSR): Ministry of Natural Resources of Russian Federation, State Research and Development Enterprise "AEROGEOLOGIA", 49 p.
Zharkov, M.A., 1981, Nizhnepermskaya galogennnaya formatsiia Severnogo Prikaspiia [Lower Permian salt formation in the northern Pricaspian]: Rostov on Don, Rostov University Publishing House, 397 p.
Zharkov, M.A., 1984, Paleozoic salt bearing formations of the world: New York, Springer-Verlag, 427 p.