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halokinetic potash-bearing salt in Ukraine

Geologic information

CountryUkraine
Location:23.4538, 49.3153
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Site typedeposit
Deposit typehalokinetic potash-bearing salt
Evaporite basinCarpathian
Basin typeforeland basin
Geologic unitVorotyshcha Fm
Age
Cenozoic
Neogene
Miocene
Minimum:Cenozoic-Neogene-Miocene
Maximum:Cenozoic-Neogene-Miocene
Commodities
Minerals
Other minerals:
Lithology
Geologic map unit23.4538, 49.3153
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Economic information

Production
StatusNone
Estimates of reserves or resources
Ore tonnage1000Million tonnes
Data sourceLand and Plant Nutrition Management Service (2005)

Reference information

References

Hryniv, S.P., Dolishniy, B.V., Khmelevska, O.V., Poberezhskyy, A.V., and Vovnyuk, S.V., 2007, Evaporites of Ukraine; A review, in Schreiber, B.C., Lugli, S., and Babel, M., eds., Evaporites through space and time: London, Geological Society Special Publication 285, p. 309-334.
Land and Plant Nutrition Management Service, 2005, Fertilizer use by crop in Ukraine: Rome, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 56 p.
Smirnov, I.V., 1989, European part of the U.S.S.R., in Dunning, F.W., Garrard, P., Haslam, H.W., and Ixer, R.A., eds., Mineral deposits of Europe, v. 4/5; Southwest and Eastern Europe, with Iceland: London, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy and The Mineralogical Society, p. 279-407.