Berezniki 3

stratabound potash-bearing salt in Russian Federation

Geologic information

CountryRussian Federation
Location:56.8435, 59.2788
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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 unit56.8435, 59.2788
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Economic information

Depth300m
Production
StatusPast Production
CompanyUralkali (2011)
First year1973(?)
Last year1986

Reference information

Comments

Was one of most modern mines in USSR located in Urals; flooded and closed in 1986; location is for sinkhole.

References

Andrejchuk, V., 2002, Collapse above the world's largest potash mine (Ural, Russia): International Journal Speleology, v. 31, no. 137-158.
British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 1979, World survey of potash resources (3d ed.): London, British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 138 p.
Roskill Information Services Ltd., 1989, The economics of potash (2d ed.): London, Roskill Information Services Ltd., 121 p.
Russell, Alison, 1988b, Potash; Long haul recovery under way: Industrial Minerals, no. 244, p. 16-34.