Klodawa

halokinetic potash-bearing salt in Poland

Geologic information

CountryPoland
Location:18.9167, 52.25
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Site typemine
Deposit typehalokinetic potash-bearing salt
Evaporite basinZechstein
Basin typeintracratonic basin
Geologic unitZechstein Group
Age
Paleozoic
Permian
Guadalupian-Lopingian
Roadian-Wordian-Capitanian-Wuchiapingian-Changhsingian
Minimum:Paleozoic-Permian-Lopingian-Changhsingian
Maximum:Paleozoic-Permian-Guadalupian-Roadian
Commodities
Minerals
Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Lithology
Geologic map unit18.9167, 52.25
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Economic information

Average grade8.5% K2O
Production
StatusPast Production
Last year1999
Estimates of reserves or resources
Ore tonnage72.9 totMillion tonnes
K2O tonnage6.2 totMillion tonnes
Grade of K2O8.5% of ore
Data years1953
Data sourceCzaposki and Bukowski (2009)

Reference information

References

British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 1984, World survey of potash resources (4th ed.): London, British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 145 p.
Czapowski, Grzegorz, and Bukowski, Krzysztof, 2009, Zolza soli w Polsce; stan aktualny i perspektywy zagospodarowania [Salt seams in Poland; Current state and perspective of management]: Prezeglad Geologiczny, v. 57, no. 9, p. 798-811.
Garrett, D.E., 1996, Potash; Deposits, processing, properties and uses: New York, Chapman and Hall, 734 p.
Harben, P.W., and Kuzvart, M., 1996, Industrial minerals; A global geology: London, Industrial Minerals Information Ltd., 462 p.
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.
Zuber, A., Grabczak, J., and Garlicki, A., 2000, Catastrophic and dangerous inflows to salt mines in Poland as related to the origin of water determined by isotope methods: Environmental Geology, v. 39, no. 3-4, p. 299-311.