Berezniki 1

stratabound potash-bearing salt in Russian Federation

Geologic information

CountryRussian Federation
Location:56.7775, 59.3901
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Site typemine
Deposit typestratabound potash-bearing salt
Evaporite basinCisuralian
Basin typeforeland basin
Geologic unitBerezniki Fm
Age
Paleozoic
Permian
Cisuralian
Kungurian
Minimum:Paleozoic-Permian-Cisuralian-Kungurian
Maximum:Paleozoic-Permian-Cisuralian-Kungurian
Commodities
Minerals
Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Lithology
Figures:Figures/SOL_More_KExtent_1fig.pdf
Geologic map unit56.7775, 59.3901
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Economic information

Depth300m
Production
StatusActive Production (2010)
CompanyUralkali (2011)
Last year2006

Reference information

Comments

Ceased mining in 2006 due to flooding and influx of hydrogen sulfide; in 2010 was a brine operation.

References

Industrial Minerals, 2007b, Flood closes Uralkali potash mine: Industrial Minerals, no. 472, p. 14.
Ober, J.A., 2007, Potash, in Metals and Minerals: U.S. Geological Survey Minerals Yearbook 2006, v. I, p. 58.1-58.9, accessed online September 21, 2012, at http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/potash/myb1-2006-potas.pdf.
Roskill Information Services Ltd., 1989, The economics of potash (2d ed.): London, Roskill Information Services Ltd., 121 p.
British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 1979, World survey of potash resources (3d ed.): London, British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 138 p.