Lyalimkan

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

Geologic information

CountryTurkmenistan
Location:66.2675, 37.9516
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Site typearea
Deposit typemixed stratabound potash-bearing salt and halokinetic potash-bearing salt
Evaporite basinCentral Asia Salt Basin
Basin typeintracratonic basin
Geologic unitGaurdak Fm
Salt structureTyubegatan
Age
Mesozoic
Jurassic
Upper Jurassic
Kimmeridgian-Tithonian
Minimum:Mesozoic-Jurassic-Upper Jurassic-Tithonian
Maximum:Mesozoic-Jurassic-Upper Jurassic-Kimmeridgian
Commodities
Minerals
Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Notes:On Tyubegatan brachyanticline.
Geologic map unit66.2675, 37.9516
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Economic information

Production
StatusNone
Estimates of reserves or resources
Ore tonnage24 C2Million tonnes
K2O tonnage4.8 C2Million tonnes
Grade of K2O19.9% of ore
Data sourceFedin (1981)

Reference information

References

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.
Osichkina, R.G., 2006, Regularities of trace element distribution in water-salt systems as indicators of the genesis of potassium salt rocks; An example from the Upper Jurassic halogen formation of central Asia: Geochemistry International, v. 44, no. 2, p. 164-174.
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.