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Sebkha el Melah

potash-bearing brine in Tunisia

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Geologic information

CountryTunisia
Location:10.9769, 33.3867
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Site typedeposit
Deposit typepotash-bearing brine
Evaporite basinEl Melah
Basin typesabkha
Age
Cenozoic
Quaternary
Minimum:Cenozoic-Quaternary
Maximum:Cenozoic-Quaternary
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Minerals
Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Lithology
Geologic map unit10.9769, 33.3867
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Economic information

Production
StatusNone
Estimates of reserves or resources
Ore tonnage6.2Million tonnes
Data sourceSmith (1982)

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Comments

Minor, small scale production of potash in the past has been reported.

References

Arab Organisation for Mineral Resources, 1987, Mineral deposit map of the Arab world; Explanatory notes and maps: Rabat, Morocco, Arab Organisation for Mineral Resources, 430 p.
British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 1984, World survey of potash resources (4th ed.): London, British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 145 p.
Kbir-Ariguib, N., Ben Hassan Chehimi, D., and Zayani, L., 2001, Treatment of Tunisian salt lakes using solubility phase diagrams: Pure Applied Chemistry, v. 73, no. 5, p. 761-770.
Power, T., 1986, Tunisia; Developing downstream industries: Industrial Minerals, no. 226, p. 20-27.
Smith, M., 1982, Potash; Optimism prevails despite market gloom: Industrial Minerals, no. 176, p. 45-51.
Veselinovic-Williams, M., and Frost-Killian, S., 2003, Digital international metallogenic map of Africa: Council for Geoscience, South Africa and Commission for the Geologic Map of the World (CGMW), scale 1:5,000,000, CD-ROM.