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Great Salt Lake

potash-bearing brine in United States of America

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Geologic information

CountryUnited States of America
Location:-112.4989, 41.2169
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Site typemine
Deposit typepotash-bearing brine
Evaporite basinBonneville
Basin typecontinental closed basin
Age
Cenozoic
Quaternary
Pleistocene-Holocene
Minimum:Cenozoic-Quaternary-Holocene
Maximum:Cenozoic-Quaternary-Pleistocene
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Lithology
Notes:Lacustrine and playa sediments.
Geologic map unit-112.4989, 41.2169
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Economic information

Production
StatusActive Production
First year1967

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References

British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 1975, World survey of potash resources (2d ed.): London, British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 148 p.
Gwynn, J.W., 2001, The extraction of mineral resources from Great Salt Lake, Utah; history, developmental milestones, and factors influencing salt extraction, in Bon, R.L., Riordan, R.F., Tripp, B.T., and Krukowski, S.T., eds., Proceedings of the 35th forum on the geology of industrial minerals, The Intermountain West Forum 1999, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2-7, 1999, Proceedings: Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 01-2, p. 49-61.
Tripp, B.T., 2001, Industrial rock and mineral resources and developments in Utah, in Bon, R.L., Riordan, R.F., Tripp, B.T., and Krukowski, S.T., eds., Proceedings of the 35th forum on the geology of industrial minerals; The Intermountain West Forum 1999, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2-7, 1999, Proceedings: Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 01-2, p. 79-92.
Warren, J., 1999, Evaporites; Their evolution and economics: Malden, Mass., Blackwell Science, 438 p.