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

Geologic information

CountrySpain
Location:-1.7167, 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:
Lithology
Geologic map unit-1.7167, 42.7333
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Economic information

Production
StatusPast Production
K2O tonnage1.23Million tonnes
Data years1977-1981
Data sourceVazquez Guzman (1989)
Estimates of reserves or resources
Ore tonnage180 syl + 210 carMillion tonnes
Grade of K2Osyl-23, car-21% of ore
Data sourceVazquez Guzman (1989)

Reference information

References

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.