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stratabound potash-bearing salt in United States of America

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CountryUnited States of America
Location:-97.8721, 38.0472
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Site typemineral occurrence
Deposit typestratabound potash-bearing salt
Evaporite basinPermian
Basin typeintracratonic basin
Geologic unitWellington Fm-Hutchinson Salt Mbr
Age
Paleozoic
Permian
Cisuralian
Artinskian(?)-Kungurian
Minimum:Paleozoic-Permian-Cisuralian-Kungurian
Maximum:Paleozoic-Permian-Cisuralian-Artinskian(?)
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Geologic map unit-97.8721, 38.0472
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Comments

Although salt has been produced, no potash production was reported in the literature.

References

Dellwig, L.F., 1963, Environment and mechanics of deposition of the Permian Hutchinson Salt member of the Wellington Shale, in Bersticker, A.C., Hoekstra, K.E., and Hall, J.F., eds., Symposium on salt: Northern Ohio Geological Society, First Symposium on Salt, Cleveland, Ohio, May 1962 [Proceedings], p. 74-85. (Also available at http://www.saltinstitute.org/content/download/458/2884.)
Swineford, A., and Runnels, R.T., 1953, Identification of polyhalite (a potash mineral) in Kansas Permian salt: Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, v. 56, no. 3, p. 364-370.