Oktyabrsk

stratabound potash-bearing salt in Belarus

Geologic information

CountryBelarus
Location:28.7035, 52.6322
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Site typedeposit
Deposit typestratabound potash-bearing salt
Evaporite basinPripyat
Basin typecontinental rift basin
Geologic unitLebedyan Horizon
Age
Paleozoic
Devonian
Upper Devonian
Famennian
Minimum:Paleozoic-Devonian-Upper Devonian-Famennian
Maximum:Paleozoic-Devonian-Upper Devonian-Famennian
Commodities
Minerals
Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Geologic map unit28.7035, 52.6322
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Economic information

Production
StatusNone
Estimates of reserves or resources
Ore tonnage637.16 C1+C2Million tonnes
K2O tonnage152.83 C1+C2Million tonnes
Grade of K2O23.9% of ore
Data sourceVysotskiy and others (2001)

Reference information

References

Eroshina, D.M., and Kislik, V.Z., 1980, Ob usloviyakh formirovaniya kaliynykh soley verkhnefranskoy solenosnoy formatsii Pripyatskoy vpadiny [Formation conditions for the potassium salts of the upper Frasnian salt-bearing formation in the Pripyat Basin]: Sovetskaya Geologiya, v. 10, p. 43-50.
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.
Vysotskiy, E.A., Petrova, N.S., Dashkevich, V.P., Plutenko, V.S., and Linnik, I.A., 2001, Geological structure and conditions of formation of the Oktyabrsky potash salt deposit in the Pripyat trough: LITASFERA (Lithosphere), v. 2, no. 15, p. 52-64. [In Russian.]
Garetskiy, R.G., Kichkina, M.S., Kruchek, S.A., Makhnach, A.S., Pap, A.M., Urjev, I.I., Khonich, P.Z., Vysotskiy, E.A., Zingerman, A.Ya., Zykov, I.A., Kislik, V.Z., Narodetskaya, A.D., Petrova, N.S., Sedun, E.V., Fomina, V.D., 1984, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, in Garetskiy, R.G. and others, eds., International Geological Congress XXVII session excursions 024 - Glacial deposits of Byelorussia, 15 - Byelorussian potassium-bearing basin: Minsk, Nauka i Tekhnika, International Geological Congress, 27th, Moscow, 1984, [Field trip guidebook], 75 p.