Elton

halokinetic potash-bearing salt in Russian Federation

Geologic information

CountryRussian Federation
Location:46.6782, 49.1348
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Site typestructure, grouped mines/occurrences
Deposit typehalokinetic potash-bearing salt
Evaporite basinPricaspian
Basin typepolyphasic basin
Geologic unitIren Fm or equivalent
Age
Paleozoic
Permian
Cisuralian
Kungurian
Minimum:Paleozoic-Permian-Cisuralian-Kungurian
Maximum:Paleozoic-Permian-Cisuralian-Kungurian
Commodities
Minerals
Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Geologic map unit46.6782, 49.1348
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Economic information

Production
StatusNone(?)

Reference information

References

Aksenov, E.M., Vedernikov, N.N., Chuprina, N.S., and Ryabikin, V.V., 2000, Agrochemical and ore raw materials on the threshold of the XXI Century: Mineral Resources of Russia, Economics and Management, v. 5-6, p. 7-15.
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.
Rundkvist, D.V., ed., 2001, 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 "Aerogeologica", 49 p., 1 map on 18 sheets, scale 1:2,500,000.
Svidzinskiy, S.A., Derevyagin, V.S., Vyazovov, V.V., Koval'skii, F.I., and Sedletskaya, N.M., 1982, Kieserite of the Elton deposit and prospects of its commercial exploitation: Lithology and Mineral Resources, v. 17, no. 1, p. 84-90.
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.