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Gaurdak

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

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Geologic information

CountryTurkmenistan
Location:66.0408, 37.8847
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Site typemine
Deposit typemixed stratabound potash-bearing salt and halokinetic potash-bearing salt
Evaporite basinCentral Asia Salt Basin
Basin typeintracratonic basin
Geologic unitGaurdak Fm
Salt structureGaurdak
Age
Mesozoic
Jurassic
Upper Jurassic
Kimmeridgian-Tithonian
Minimum:Mesozoic-Jurassic-Upper Jurassic-Tithonian
Maximum:Mesozoic-Jurassic-Upper Jurassic-Kimmeridgian
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Minerals
Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Notes:Gaurdak brachyanticline; 6 potash horizons; 3 horizons ave 1.5-5 m thick with 10.7-25.3 percent K2O.
Geologic map unit66.0408, 37.8847
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Thickness1.5-5m
Depth60-450m
Average grade10-25.3% K2O
Production
StatusNone
Estimates of reserves or resources
Ore tonnage106.3 A+B+C1Million tonnes
K2O tonnage20.1 A+B+C1Million tonnes
Grade of K2O19% of ore
Data sourceFedin (1981)

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Comments

In Tadshikistan Valley.

References

British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 1979, World survey of potash resources (3d ed.): London, British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 138 p.
Fedin, O.V., 1981, Otsenka perspektiv kaliyenosnosti verkhneyurskikh solyanykh otlozheniy yuga Sredney Azii [An evaluation of the prospects for potash-bearing capabilities in the Upper Jurassic salt deposits in southern Central Asia], in Yanshin, A.L., and Zharkov, M.A., eds., Stroyeniye i usloviya formirovaniya mestorozhdeniy kaliynykh soley [The structure and formation conditions of potash salt deposits]: Novosibirsk, USSR, Izd. Nauka, Sibirsk. Otdel., p. 171-176.
Garrett, D.E., 1996, Potash; Deposits, processing, properties and uses: New York, Chapman and Hall, 734 p.
Kahle, K., and Scherzberg, H., 2000, New potassium-projects as a source for sodium chloride products with a high purity, in Geertman, R.M., ed., 8th World salt symposium: New York, Elsevier, 8th World Salt Symposium, The Hague, May 7-11, 2000 [Proceedings], v. 1, p. 583-588.
McFaul, E.J., Mason, G.T., Ferguson, W B., and Lipin, B.R., 2002, U.S. Geological Survey mineral databases; MRS and MAS/MILS: U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-52, 2 disks.
Rayevskiy, V.I., and Fiveg, M.P., 1973, Mestorozhdeniya kaliynykh soley SSSR; metody ikh poiskov i razvedki [Deposits of potassium salts in the USSR; methods of exploration and surveying]: Leniingrad, Izd. Nedra, Leningr. Otd., 344 p.