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potash-bearing brine in United States of America

Geologic information

CountryUnited States of America
Location:-114.0356, 40.6914
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Site typemine
Deposit typepotash-bearing brine
Evaporite basinBonneville
Basin typecontinental closed basin
Age
Cenozoic
Neogene-Quaternary
Pliocene-Pleistocene-Holocene
Minimum:Cenozoic-Quaternary-Holocene
Maximum:Cenozoic-Neogene-Pliocene
Commodities
Minerals
Potassium minerals:
Lithology
Notes:Lacustrine and playa sediments.
Geologic map unit-114.0356, 40.6914
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Economic information

Production
StatusActive Production (2010)

Reference information

References

Gwynn, J.W., 1996, History of potash production from the Salduro salt marsh (Bonneville salt flats), Tooele County: Utah Geological Survey Notes, v. 28, no. 2, p. 1-3.