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Llobregat

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

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Geologic information

CountrySpain
Location:1.9012, 41.8197
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Site typemine
Deposit typemixed stratabound potash-bearing salt and halokinetic potash-bearing salt
Evaporite basinSouth Pyrenean
Basin typeforeland basin
Geologic unitCardona Fm
Age
Cenozoic
Paleogene
Eocene
Minimum:Cenozoic-Paleogene-Eocene
Maximum:Cenozoic-Paleogene-Eocene
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Minerals
Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Lithology
Notes:2 beds of sylvite separated by 1 bed halite at Balsareny and Sallent.
Geologic map unit1.9012, 41.8197
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Economic information

Depth300-400m
Average grade15% K2O
Production
StatusActive Production (2010)
CompanyICL-Iberpotash (2010)
Estimates of reserves or resources
Ore tonnage0.65 + 51 prob + 65 possMillion tonnes
K2O tonnage0.1 + 8 prob + 10 possMillion tonnes
Grade of K2O15.6% of ore
Data sourceVazquez Guzman (1989)

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Comments

Works Vilafruns-Fonollosa syncline.

References

Garrett, D.E., 1996, Potash; Deposits, processing, properties and uses: New York, Chapman and Hall, 734 p.
Griffiths, J., 1985, Spain's industrial minerals: Industrial Minerals, no. 217, p. 23-63.
Ramirez Ortega, A., 1986, The Catalan potash field: Industrial Minerals, no. 230, p. 55-59.
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.
Smith, M., 1982, Potash; Optimism prevails despite market gloom: Industrial Minerals, no. 176, p. 45-51.
Vazquez Guzman, F., 1989, Spain, in Dunning, F.W., Garrard, P., Haslam, H.W., and Ixer, R.A., eds., Mineral deposits of Europe, v. 4/5; Southwest and eastern Europe, with Iceland: London, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy and Mineralogical Society, p. 105-196.