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Penobsquis-Piccadilly

halokinetic potash-bearing salt in Canada

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Geologic information

CountryCanada
Location:-65.4138, 45.7473
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Site typemine
Deposit typehalokinetic potash-bearing salt
Evaporite basinMaritimes
Basin typeintracratonic basin
Geologic unitWindsor Group-Cassidy Lake Fm
Salt structureAnagance
Age
Paleozoic
Carboniferous-Mississippian
Middle Mississippian
Visean
Minimum:Paleozoic-Carboniferous-Mississippian-Middle Mississippian-Visean
Maximum:Paleozoic-Carboniferous-Mississippian-Middle Mississippian-Visean
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Minerals
Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Notes:Plumweseep is the dome at the southwestern end of the Anagance diapiric anticline; Penobsquis is the dome at the northeastern end; Picadilly is composed of the deposits on the SE limb of the diapiric anticline.
Geologic map unit-65.4138, 45.7473
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Economic information

Production
StatusActive Production
First year1983
Ore tonnage46.4Million tonnes
K2O tonnage10.77Million tonnes
Grade of K2O23.24% of ore
Data years1983-2007
Data sourceMoore and others (2008)
Estimates of reserves or resources
Ore tonnage472.3 ind+inf (in place), 195.0 prov+prob recMillion tonnes
Data years2007
Data sourceMoore and others (2008)

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References

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.
Garrett, D.E., 1996, Potash; Deposits, processing, properties and uses: New York, Chapman and Hall, 734 p.
Industrial Minerals, 2007c, PCS new mine and expansion: Industrial Minerals, no. 479, p. 13.
Moore, G., Appleyard, J., Danyluk, T., Nemeth, B., Prugger, A., and Roulston, B., 2008, National Instrument 43-101 technical report on Penobsquis and Picadilly potash deposits, King's County, New Brunswick, Canada: Saskatoon, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc., 83 p.
Schwerdtner, W.M., and Morrison, M.J., 1974, Internal-flow mechanism of salt and sylvinite in Anagance diapiric anticline near Sussex, New Brunswick, in Coogan, A.H., ed., Fourth symposium on salt: Northern Ohio Geological Society, Fourth Symposium on Salt, Houston, Tex., April 8-12, 1974 [Proceedings] p. 241-248. (Also available at http://www.saltinstitute.org/content/download/1305/7200.)
Webb, T.C., 2009, Potash: New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources Mineral Commodity Profile 4, 8 p.