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potash-bearing brine in Libya

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Geologic information

CountryLibya
Location:13.15, 27.5333
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Site typedeposit
Deposit typepotash-bearing brine
Evaporite basinEdri
Basin typecontinental closed basin
Age
Cenozoic
Quaternary
Minimum:Cenozoic-Quaternary
Maximum:Cenozoic-Quaternary
Commodities
Minerals
Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Notes:Fumarolic sulfur present; salt covers 35 km2; deposit crust is 40 cm thick; mixed salts are 30 cm thick; brine is 60 cm.
Geologic map unit13.15, 27.5333
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Production
StatusNone
Estimates of reserves or resources
K2O tonnage0.1Million tonnes
Data years1958
Data sourceGoudarzi (1982)

Reference information

Comments

Closed depression in area of Devonian rocks; saline deposit covers about 35 square km.

References

Goudarzi, G.H., 1970, Geology and mineral resources of Libya; A reconnaissance: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 660, 104 p. (Also available at http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp660.)
Goudarzi, G.H., 1982, Potash in Libya, in Austin, G.S., ed., Industrial rocks and minerals of the Southwest: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Circular 182, p. 27-30.
Wilburn, D.R., Russell, J.A., and Bleiwas, D.I., 1995, Estimated use of explosives in the mining industries of Algeria, Iran, Iraq, and Libya: Report UCRL-CR-122186, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, variously paged.