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Searles Lake

potash-bearing brine in United States of America

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Geologic information

CountryUnited States of America
Location:-117.3342, 35.7333
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Site typemine
Deposit typepotash-bearing brine
Evaporite basinSearles
Basin typecontinental closed basin
Age
Cenozoic
Quaternary
Pleistocene-Holocene
Minimum:Cenozoic-Quaternary-Holocene
Maximum:Cenozoic-Quaternary-Pleistocene
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Lithology
Geologic map unit-117.3342, 35.7333
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Economic information

Production
StatusPast Production
First year1913
Estimates of reserves or resources
K2O tonnage32.0 prov+probMillion tonnes
Data sourceBritish Sulphur (1984)

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References

British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 1975, World survey of potash resources (2d ed.): London, British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 148 p.
British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 1984, World survey of potash resources (4th ed.): London, British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 145 p.
Roskill Information Services Ltd., 1989, The economics of potash (2d ed.): London, Roskill Information Services Ltd., 121 p.
Russell, Alison, 1988b, Potash; Long haul recovery under way: Industrial Minerals, no. 244, p. 16-34.
Smith, G.I., 1976, Origin of lithium and other components in the Searles Lake evaporites, California; Lithium resources and requirements by the year 2000: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1005, p. 92-103. (Also available at http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp1005.)