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Gremuchiy

halokinetic potash-bearing salt in Russian Federation

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Geologic information

CountryRussian Federation
Location:49.6877, 51.1734
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Site typemineral occurrence
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
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Notes:Anticline is tightly folded.
Geologic map unit49.6877, 51.1734
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Thickness20-25m
Depth>450m
Average grade25% K2O
Production
StatusNone

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Comments

Small deposits.

References

Garrett, D.E., 1996, Potash; Deposits, processing, properties and uses: New York, Chapman and Hall, 734 p.
British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 1984, World survey of potash resources (4th ed.): London, British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 145 p.
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.
Natapov, L.M., Egorov, A.Y., Rodnov, Y.N., R., and Belkina, I.L., 2001, in Rundkvist, D.V., ed., 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 "AEROGEOLOGIA", 49 p.