Potash resource Eddy #860 (mine) in United States of America

Sylvite from the First Ore Zone; sylvite and langbeinite from the Fifth Ore Zone; langbeinite from Fourth Ore Zone; originally mined higher grade ore from First Ore Zone, but started mining lower grade ore from the Seventh Ore Zone in 1967.

Geologic map unit

-103.9995, 32.5732

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Economic information

Production
Status	Past Production
First year	1935

Reference information

References

Barker, J.M., and Austin, G.S., 1996, Overview of the Carlsbad Potash District, New Mexico, in Austin, G.S., Hoffman, G.K., Barker, J.M., Zidek, J., and Gilson, N., eds., Proceedings of the 31st forum on the geology of industrial minerals; The Borderland Forum, El Paso, Tex., April 23-28, 1995, Preceedings: Socorro, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Bulletin 154, p. 49-61.

Barker, James, and Gundiler, Ibrahim, 2008, New Mexico potash; Past, present, and future: New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources New Mexico Earth Matters, Summer 2008, p. 1-4.

British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 1975, World survey of potash resources (2d ed.): London, British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 148 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.

Russell, Alison, 1988b, Potash; Long haul recovery under way: Industrial Minerals, no. 244, p. 16-34.