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Salduro Salt Deposit

potash-bearing brine in United States of America

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Geologic information

CountryUnited States of America
Location:-113.8933, 40.7211
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Site typedeposit
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
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Geologic map unit-113.8933, 40.7211
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Economic information

Depth6-625m
Production
StatusActive Production (2001)
First year1937

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Comments

Lacustrine and playa sediments; brine is mined from 3 subsurface aquifers.

References

British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 1975, World survey of potash resources (2d ed.): London, British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 148 p.
Gale, H.S., 1916, Potash in Salduro salt deposit: Engineering and Mining Journal, v. 102, no. 18, p. 780-782.
Roskill Information Services Ltd., 1989, The economics of potash (2d ed.): London, Roskill Information Services Ltd., 121 p.
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.