Kalush

halokinetic potash-bearing salt in Ukraine

Geologic information

CountryUkraine
Location:24.3487, 49.0221
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Site typemine
Deposit typehalokinetic potash-bearing salt
Evaporite basinCarpathian
Basin typeforeland basin
Geologic unitTyras Fm
Age
Cenozoic
Neogene
Miocene
Minimum:Cenozoic-Neogene-Miocene
Maximum:Cenozoic-Neogene-Miocene
Commodities
Minerals
Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Lithology
Notes:Sulfate deposit; generally 4 horizons, 10-60 m apart.
Geologic map unit24.3487, 49.0221
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Economic information

Depth200-300m
Average grade10-12% K2O
Production
StatusActive Production

Reference information

Comments

Deposit is deformed.

References

British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 1979, World survey of potash resources (3d ed.): London, British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 138 p.
Cendon, D.I., Peryt, T.M., Ayora, C., Pueyo, J.J., and Taberner, C., 2004, The importance of recycling processes in the Middle Miocene Badenian evaporite basin (Carpathian Foredeep); Palaeoenvironmental implications: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology, v. 212, p. 141-158.
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.
Hryniv, S., Parafiniuk, J., and Peryt, T.M., 2007, Sulphur isotopic composition of K-Mg sulphates of the Miocene evaporites of the Carpathian Foredeep, Ukraine, in Schreiber, B.C., Lugli, S., and Babel, M., eds., Evaporites through space and time: London, Geological Society Special Publication 285, p. 265-273.
Roskill Information Services Ltd., 1989, The economics of potash (2d ed.): London, Roskill Information Services Ltd., 121 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.
Troitsky, Vladimir; Petrov, Igor; and Grishaev, Sergey, 1998, Industrial minerals of the CIS: Worcester Park, England, Industrial Minerals Information Ltd., 135 p.