Salar de Uyuni

potash-bearing brine in Bolivia

Geologic information

CountryBolivia
Location:-67.44, -20.25
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Site typedeposit
Deposit typepotash-bearing brine
Evaporite basinUyuni
Basin typecontinental closed basin
Age
Cenozoic
Quaternary
Pleistocene-Holocene
Upper Pleistocene-[recent]
Minimum:Cenozoic-Quaternary-Holocene
Maximum:Cenozoic-Quaternary-Pleistocene-Upper Pleistocene
Commodities
Minerals
Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Lithology
Geologic map unit-67.44, -20.25
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Economic information

Production
StatusNone

Reference information

References

Ballivian, O., and Risacher, F., 1981, Los salares del Altiplano de Bolivia; Metodos de studio y estimacion economica [The salt flats of Bolivia’s Altiplano, methods of study and economic assessment]: Paris and La Paz, l’Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer and Universidad Mayor de San Andres, 246 p.
Garrett, D.E., 1996, Potash; Deposits, processing, properties and uses: New York, Chapman and Hall, 734 p.
Risacher, F., Miranda, J., and Carlo, L.,1976, Litio y potasio en las borateras de Rio Grande: La Paz, Bolivia, Universidad Mayor de San Andres and l’Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer, 3 p.
Roskill Information Services Ltd., 1989, The economics of potash (2d ed.): London, Roskill Information Services Ltd., 121 p.