Zhilian

halokinetic potash-bearing salt in Kazakhstan

Geologic information

CountryKazakhstan
Location:57.4052, 50.2333
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Site typearea
Deposit typehalokinetic potash-bearing salt
Evaporite basinCisuralian
Basin typeforeland basin
Geologic unitIren Fm
Age
Paleozoic
Permian
Cisuralian
Kungurian
Minimum:Paleozoic-Permian-Cisuralian-Kungurian
Maximum:Paleozoic-Permian-Cisuralian-Kungurian
Commodities
Minerals
Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Lithology
Geologic map unit57.4052, 50.2333
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Economic information

Production
StatusNone
CompanyFortis Mining Inc. (2011)
Estimates of reserves or resources
K2O tonnage2.4 A+B+C1Million tonnes
Data sourceZharkov (1981)

Reference information

References

British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 1979, World survey of potash resources (3d ed.): London, British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 138 p.
Commission for the Geological Map of the World, 1968, Carte metallogenique de l’Europe; Liste de gites mineraux, feuille 6 [Metallogenic map of Europe; list of mineral deposits, sheet 6]; Europe E (MOSCOU): Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres and United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, 9 p.
Fortis Mining Ltd., 2011b, Zhilyanskoe: Melbourne, Australia, Fortis Mining Ltd. Web page accessed September 17, 2011, at http://www.fortismining.com.au/fortis_mining_zhilyanskoe.html.
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.
Petrov, O., Shatov, V., Kondian, K., Markov, G., Guriev, G., Seltmann, R., and Armstrong, R., 2007, Mineral deposits of the Urals 1M scale map and database; ArcView 3.2 GIS package: London, Natural History Museum, Center for Russian and Central Asian Mineral Studies (CERCAMS), 91 sheets.
Troitsky, Vladimir; Petrov, Igor; and Grishaev, Sergey, 1998, Industrial minerals of the CIS: Worcester Park, England, Industrial Minerals Information Ltd., 135 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.