Potash resource Suria #730 (grouped mines/occurrences) in Spain

Production
Depth	550-880m
Average grade	15% K₂O
Status	Active Production (2010)
Company	ICL-Iberpotash (2010)
Estimates of reserves or resources
Ore tonnage	0.8 + 5 prob + 157 possMillion tonnes
K₂O tonnage	0.1 + 0.8 prob + 25 possMillion tonnes
Grade of K₂O	16% of ore
Data source	Vazquez Guzman (1989)

Reference information

Comments

Latitude and longitude are for the southern production area; works anticline; mine exploits part or all of the Agenaise and Beta concessions.

References

Garrett, D.E., 1996, Potash; Deposits, processing, properties and uses: New York, Chapman and Hall, 734 p.

Miralles, L., Sans, M., Pueyo, J.J., and Santanach, P., 2000, Recrystallization salt fabric in a shear zone (Cardona diapir), southern Pyrenees, Spain, in Vendeville, B.C., Mart, Y., and Vigneresse, J.-L., eds., Salt, shale and igneous diapirs in and around Europe: London, Geological Society Special Publication 174, p. 149-167.

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.

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.