Beriain

mixed stratabound potash-bearing salt and halokinetic potash-bearing salt in Spain

Geologic information

CountrySpain
Location:-1.6333, 42.7333
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Site typemine
Deposit typemixed stratabound potash-bearing salt and halokinetic potash-bearing salt
Evaporite basinSouth Pyrenean
Basin typeforeland basin
Geologic unitGuendulain Fm
Age
Cenozoic
Paleogene
Eocene
Minimum:Cenozoic-Paleogene-Eocene
Maximum:Cenozoic-Paleogene-Eocene
Commodities
Minerals
Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Geologic map unit-1.6333, 42.7333
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Economic information

Production
StatusActive Production

Reference information

References

Rosell, L., and Pueyo, J.-J., 1997, Second marine evaporitic phase in the South Pyrenean Foredeep; The Priabonian potash basin (late Eocene; autochthonous-allochthonous zone), in Busson, G., and Schreiber, B.C., eds., Sedimentary deposition in rift and foreland basins in France and Spain (Paleogene and lower Neogene): New York, Columbia University Press, p. 358-387.