Country | United States of America | ||||
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Location: | -103.9995, 32.5732 | ||||
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Site type | mine | ||||
Deposit type | stratabound potash-bearing salt | ||||
Evaporite basin | Permian | ||||
Basin type | intracratonic basin | ||||
Geologic unit | Salado Fm | ||||
Age | Paleozoic Permian Lopingian Wuchiapingian-Changhsingian
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Minerals | Potassium minerals: Other minerals: | ||||
Notes: | 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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Production | |
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Status | Past Production |
First year | 1935 |