Salar de Cauchari

potash-bearing brine in Argentina

Geologic information

CountryArgentina
Location:-66.758, -23.7868
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Site typebrine
Deposit typepotash-bearing brine
Evaporite basinOlaroz-Cauchari
Basin typecontinental closed basin
Age
Cenozoic
Neogene-Quaternary
Miocene-Pliocene-Pleistocene-Holocene
Minimum:Cenozoic-Quaternary-Holocene
Maximum:Cenozoic-Neogene-Miocene
Commodities
Minerals
Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Lithology
Notes:Lithium is primary commodity; potash is potential by-product.
Geologic map unit-66.758, -23.7868
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Economic information

Production
StatusNone
CompanyOrocobre Ltd. (2010); Lithium Americas Corp. (2010)

Reference information

References

Houston, John, 2010a, Technical report on the Cauchari project, Jujuy Province, Argentina; NI 43-101 Report prepared for Orocobre Ltd.: Milton, Queensland, Orocobre Ltd., 70 p.
King, Mark, 2010, Inferred resource estimation of lithium and potassium at the Cauchari and Olaroz Salars, Jujuy Province, Argentina: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Groundwater Insight, 108 p.