Clover Hill

halokinetic potash-bearing salt in Canada

Geologic information

CountryCanada
Location:-65.5708, 45.56
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Site typemine
Deposit typehalokinetic potash-bearing salt
Evaporite basinMaritimes
Basin typeintracratonic basin
Geologic unitWindsor Group-Cassidy Lake Fm
Age
Paleozoic
Carboniferous-Mississippian
Middle Mississippian
Visean
Minimum:Paleozoic-Carboniferous-Mississippian-Middle Mississippian-Visean
Maximum:Paleozoic-Carboniferous-Mississippian-Middle Mississippian-Visean
Commodities
Minerals
Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Geologic map unit-65.5708, 45.56
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Economic information

Thickness1-25 (ave 12)m
Depth600-1000m
Average grade28% K2O
Production
StatusPast Production
First year1985
Estimates of reserves or resources
Ore tonnage>230 prov+prob+possMillion tonnes
Grade of K2O28% of ore
Data years1986
Data sourceWebb (2009)

Reference information

Comments

2 years production.

References

Anderle, J.P., Crosby, K.S., and Waugh, D.C.E., 1979, Potash at Salt Springs, New Brunswick: Economic Geology, v. 74, no. 2, p. 389-396.
Dean P., Fowler, J.H., Burnett, D., Pare, C., Banatyne, B.B., Guliov, P., Hamilton, W.N., and Hora, Z.D., 1984, Industrial minerals in Canada; A review of recent developments: Industrial Minerals, no. 200, p. 63-125.
Gardiner, C.D., 1990, Canadian Mines Handbook, 1989-1990: Toronto, Northern Miner Press, 608 p.
Garrett, D.E., 1996, Potash; Deposits, processing, properties and uses: New York, Chapman and Hall, 734 p.
Roskill Information Services Ltd., 1989, The economics of potash (2d ed.): London, Roskill Information Services Ltd., 121 p.
Webb, T.C., 2001, Industrial rock and mineral development and opportunities in New Brunswick, in Dunlop, S., and Simandl, G.J., eds., Industrial minerals in Canada: Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum Special Volume 53, p. 255-262.
Webb, T.C., 2009, Potash: New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources Mineral Commodity Profile 4, 8 p.