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stratabound potash-bearing salt in Russian Federation

Geologic information

CountryRussian Federation
Location:54.3, 51.9333
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Site typemineral occurrence
Deposit typestratabound 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 unit54.3, 51.9333
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Economic information

Production
StatusNone

Reference information

Comments

Potash identified in core.

References

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.
Diarov, M., Utarbaev, G.S., and Tukhfatov, K.T., 1981, Tipy i nekotoryye zakonomernosti razmeshcheniya zalezhey kaliynykh soley solyanokupol'nykh struktur Prikaspiyskoy vpadiny [Patterns and some distribution mechanisms for potash salt deposits of salt dome structures in the Pricaspian Depression], 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. 124-126.
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.