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Palasher

stratabound potash-bearing salt in Russian Federation

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Geologic information

CountryRussian Federation
Location:56.7752, 59.2279
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Site typearea
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
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Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Lithology
Figures:Figures/SOL_More_KExtent_1fig.pdf
Geologic map unit56.7752, 59.2279
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Economic information

Production
StatusNone
CompanyEuroChem (2012)
Estimates of reserves or resources
Ore tonnage1) 1000 syl + 500 car; 2) 360 prov syl ore + 76 car ore; 3) 420 prov+prob, 1075 meas+indMillion tonnes
K2O tonnage3) 77 prov+prob, 197 meas+indMillion tonnes
Grade of K2O3) 18.3% of ore
Data source1) Industrial Minerals (2008e); 2) Kolesnikova (2007); 3) Feytis (2012)

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Comments

The reserves and resources from Feytis (2012) are JORC-compliant.

References

Feytis, Alexandra, 2012, Canadian potash dominance faces Russian competition: Industrial Minerals, no. 537, p. 36-39.
Industrial Minerals, 2008e, Russia's golden potash future: Industrial Minerals, no. 487, p. 20.
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.