Potash resource Starobin #52 (grouped mines/occurrences) in Belarus

Production
Thickness	2-7; 1-4; 4.5; 25-35m
Depth	350-620; 370-700; 350-1200; 600-1335m
Status	Active Production (2012)
Company	Belaruskali (2012)
First year	1963
K₂O tonnage	1000Million tonnes
Data years	1963-2003
Data source	Dakuko (2003)
Estimates of reserves or resources
Ore tonnage	1) 4420; 2) 7200 A+B+C1+C2; 3) 3370Million tonnes
K₂O tonnage	1) 670; 2) 1130; 3) 800Million tonnes
Grade of K₂O	1) 15; 2) 15.7; 3) 15% of ore
Data source	1) Garetsky and others (1982); 2) Garetsky and others (1984); Troitsky and others (1998)

Reference information

Comments

Starobin mining complex reached 1000 Mt production in 2003.

References

British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 1975, World survey of potash resources (2d ed.): London, British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 148 p.

British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 1984, World survey of potash resources (4th ed.): London, British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 145 p.

Derevyankin, Y., Ivanova, N., and Derevyankina, L., 1998, Gold in potash ores of the Starobin deposit: Fizykochemiczne Problemy Mineralurgii, v. 32, p. 275-280.

Garrett, D.E., 1996, Potash; Deposits, processing, properties and uses: New York, Chapman and Hall, 734 p.

Korenevskiy, S.M., 1990, Lithotypes of potassium-bearing formations: Lithology and Mineral Resources, v. 25, no. 2, p. 99-106.

Petrychenko, O.Y., and Peryt, T.M., 2004, Geochemical conditions of deposition in the Upper Devonian Prypiac' and Dnipro-Donets evaporite basins (Belarus and Ukraine): The Journal of Geology, v. 112, p. 577-592.

Williams-Stroud, S.C., Searls, J.P., and Hite, R.J., 1994, Potash resources, in Carr, D.D., ed., Industrial minerals and rocks: Littleton, Colo., Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, p. 783-802.

Zharkov, M.A., 1984, Paleozoic salt bearing formations of the world: New York, Springer-Verlag, 427 p.

Dakuko, Nikolai, 2003, Technical and technological development of PA Belaruskali, in IFA Production and International Trade Conference and Regional Conference for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 22-26, 2003, Proceedings: Paris, International Fertilizer Industry Association, 10 p. (Also available at http://www.fertilizer.org/ifa/HomePage/LIBRARY/Publication-database.html/Technical-and-Technological-Development-of-PA-Belaruskali.html.)

Garetskiy, R.G., Kislik, V. Z., Vysotskiy, E. A., Eroshina, D. M., Petrov, N.S., Obrovets, S. M., Sedun, E. V., and Protasevich, B. A., 1982, Devonskiye solenosnyye formatsii Pripyatskogo progiba [The Devonian saliferous formations of the Pripyat basin]: Minsk, Nauka Tekhnika, 207 p.

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.