Potash resource Balakhontsevo #690 (mineral occurrence) in Russian Federation

Balakhontsevo

stratabound potash-bearing salt in Russian Federation

Geologic information

Country

Russian Federation

Location:

56.8831, 59.2589

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Site type

mineral occurrence

Deposit type

stratabound potash-bearing salt

Evaporite basin

Cisuralian

Basin type

foreland basin

Geologic unit

Berezniki Fm

Age

Paleozoic

Permian

Cisuralian

Kungurian

Minimum:	Paleozoic-Permian-Cisuralian-Kungurian
Maximum:	Paleozoic-Permian-Cisuralian-Kungurian

Commodities

Minerals

Potassium minerals:

Other minerals:

Geologic map unit

56.8831, 59.2589

Nearby scientific data

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Economic information

Production
Status	None (2008)
Company	Verkhnekamsk Potassium Co (2008)

Reference information

Comments

Large deposit.

References

Kolesnikova, Maria, 2007, Russia to auction world's largest untapped potash sites in April: The Wall Street Journal press release, December 25, 2007, 1 p., accessed December 28, 2008, at http://www.livemint.com/2007/12/25233916/Russia-to-auction-world8217.html.

Petrov, O., Shatov, V., Kondian, K., Markov, G., Guriev, G., Seltmann, R., and Armstrong, R., 2007, Mineral deposits of the Urals 1M scale map and database; ArcView 3.2 GIS package: London, Natural History Museum, Center for Russian and Central Asian Mineral Studies (CERCAMS), 91 sheets.