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halokinetic potash-bearing salt in Kazakhstan

Geologic information

CountryKazakhstan
Location:51.9106, 48.5309
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Site typegrouped mines/occurrences
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:
Geologic map unit51.9106, 48.5309
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Economic information

Production
StatusNone

Reference information

References

British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 1984, World survey of potash resources (4th ed.): London, British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 145 p.
Korenevskiy, S.M., and Voronova, M.L., 1966, Geologiia i usloviia formirovaniia kaliinykh mestorozhdenii Prikaspiiskoi sineklizy i Iuzkno-Predural'skogo progiba [Geology and formation conditions for the potassium layer of the Pricaspian synclise and southern Cis-Uralian depression]: Moscow, Nedra, 279 p.
Rayevskiy, V.I., and Fiveg, M.P., 1973, Mestorozhdeniya kaliynykh soley SSSR; metody ikh poiskov i razvedki [Deposits of potassium salts in the USSR; methods of exploration and surveying]: Leniingrad, Izd. Nedra, Leningr. Otd., 344 p.