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Karlyuk

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

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Geologic information

CountryTurkmenistan
Location:66.3011, 37.5696
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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 structureKugitang
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:On Kugitang brachyanticline; at Karljuk, 2 widely separated K zones with 4 beds in upper zone and 7 in lower; near and related to Khodzhaikan deposit in Uzbekistan.
Geologic map unit66.3011, 37.5696
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Economic information

Depth180-1100m
Production
StatusUnder Development(?)
Last year1998
Estimates of reserves or resources
Ore tonnage1) 670; 2) 2017; 3) 2015 A+B+C1, 1175 C2Million tonnes
K2O tonnage1) 121; 2) 371; 3) 405 A+B+C1, 236 C2Million tonnes
Grade of K2O1) 18; 2) 18.4; 3) 19.5-20.7% of ore
Data source1) Troitsky and others (1998); 2) Levine and Wallace (2001); 3) Fedin (1981)

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Comments

Solution mine.

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.
Golovkov, B.Y., 1990, Development of potash and salt in the USSR to enter Pacific Rim markets, in Griffiths, J.B., ed., 9th "Industrial Minerals" International Congress, Sydney, 1990, Proceedings: London, Chameleon Press, p. 159-164.
Levine, R.M., and Wallace, G.J., 2001, The mineral industries of the Commonwealth of Independent States; Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, in Area reports; International: U.S. Geological Survey Minerals Yearbook 2001, v. III, p. 6.1-6.41, and tables, accessed online September 19, 2012, at http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/2001/cismyb01.pdf.
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.
Roskill Information Services Ltd., 1989, The economics of potash (2d ed.): London, Roskill Information Services Ltd., 121 p.
Rundkvist, D.V., ed., 2001, Mineragenetic map of Russian Federation and adjacent states (within the boundaries of former USSR): Ministry of Natural Resources of Russian Federation, State Research and Development Enterprise "Aerogeologica", 49 p., 1 map on 18 sheets, scale 1:2,500,000.
Russell, Alison, 1988b, Potash; Long haul recovery under way: Industrial Minerals, no. 244, p. 16-34.
Troitsky, Vladimir; Petrov, Igor; and Grishaev, Sergey, 1998, Industrial minerals of the CIS: Worcester Park, England, Industrial Minerals Information Ltd., 135 p.