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Okuzbulak

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

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Geologic information

CountryTurkmenistan
Location:66.3969, 37.4945
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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 structureGaurdak
Age
Mesozoic
Jurassic-Cretaceous
Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous
Kimmeridgian-Tithonian-Berriasian-Valanginian(?)
Minimum:Mesozoic-Cretaceous-Lower Cretaceous-Valanginian(?)
Maximum:Mesozoic-Jurassic-Upper Jurassic-Kimmeridgian
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Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Notes:On Gaurdak brachyanticline; deposit appears to be small; 2 sylvite beds, 12 m apart; upper bed is 3.5 m thick with 12.5-15.8 percent K2O; lower bed is 2.5 m thick with 8-11 percent K2O.
Geologic map unit66.3969, 37.4945
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Production
StatusNone
Estimates of reserves or resources
Ore tonnage1) 96 A+B+C1; 2) 765Million tonnes
K2O tonnage1) 18 A+B+C1; 2) 90Million tonnes
Grade of K2O1) 18.3; 2) 11.8% of ore
Data years1) 1981; 2) 1973
Data source1) Fedin (1981); 2) Rayevskiy and Fiveg (1973)

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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.
Lefond, S.J., 1969, Handbook of world salt resources: New York, Plenum Press, 384 p.
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.
Schultz, Heinz; Bauer, Gunter; Schachl, Erich; Hagedorn, Fritz; and Schmittinger, Peter, 2000, Potassium compounds, in Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry: New York, Wiley-VCH, accessed November 22, 2009, at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14356007.a22_039/full.