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Salar de Diablillos

potash-bearing brine in Argentina

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Geologic information

CountryArgentina
Location:-66.7677, -25.2453
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Site typedeposit
Deposit typepotash-bearing brine
Evaporite basinHombre Muerto-Diablillos
Basin typecontinental closed basin
Age
Cenozoic
Neogene-Quaternary
Pleistocene(?)-Holocene
Minimum:Cenozoic-Quaternary-Holocene
Maximum:Cenozoic-Neogene-Pleistocene(?)
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Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Lithology
Notes:Lithium is primary commodity; potash is potential by-product.
Geologic map unit-66.7677, -25.2453
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Economic information

Production
StatusNone
CompanyRodinia Lithium Inc. (2011)
Estimates of reserves or resources
K2O tonnage12.5 infMillion tonnes
Data sourceLarrondo and others (2011)

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References

Larrondo, P., Simon, A., and Etienne, M., 2011, Salar de Diablillos project, Salta Province, Argentina, NI 43-101 Technical Report on brine resource estimate: Santiago, Chile, AMEC International Ingenieria y Construcion Limitada, 126 p.
Rodinia Lithium, 2011, Salar de Diablillos project: Toronto, Rodinia Lithium Web page accessed March 11, 2011, at http://rodinialithium.com/projects/diabillos/.