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    Potash Bed Mapping in the Paradox Basin, Northern San Juan County, Utah

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    Rupke, A.
    Boden, T.
    Issue Date
    2016-01-22
    Keywords
    Arizona Geological Survey Special Paper
    Economic geology
    FGIM
    industrial mineral
    potash
    Pennslyvanian
    Paleozoic
    Spanish Valley
    Lisbon Valley
    Hatch Point
    San Juan County
    Paradox Basin
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    Rupke, A. and Boden, T., 2015, Potash Bed Mapping in the Paradox Basin, Northern San Juan County Utah. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Forum on the Geology of Industrial Minerals, Phoenix, Arizona, April 30 – May 4, 2012. Arizona Geological Survey Special Paper #9, Chapter 8, 23 p.
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    Strong international demand and high potash prices have prompted a number of companies to conduct or plan potash exploration in the already productive Paradox Basin of southeastern Utah. In response to potash interest in the area, the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration contracted the Utah Geological Survey to evaluate potash beds in the Pennsylvanian Paradox Formation in about 900 square miles of northern San Juan County, including the Hatch Point, Hart Point, and Lisbon Valley areas. The Paradox Formation is an evaporite sequence containing up to 29 recognized salt cycles that are numbered sequentially from top (1) to bottom (29), and the most significant potash beds in the study area are in salt cycles 5, 6, 9, 13, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, and 24. Data on these beds were compiled from published and unpublished sources containing information on 132 potash exploration boreholes and oil and gas wells in and around the area. From the compiled data we created isopach, grade, overburden thickness, and structure contour maps of potash beds. For the maps, we interpolated the data using an inverse-distance-squared weighting, with an anisotropy applied to take the Paradox Basin’s northwest-trending geometry into account. Results suggest that multiple salt cycles in the study area may represent a potash resource; however, the resource comprises different beds in different areas. The primary potash-bearing mineral of most of the potential resources in the basin is sylvite, but carnallite is also present in some areas.
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    Series/Report no.
    Special Paper #9, Chapter 8
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    Arizona Geological Survey. All rights reserved.
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    Documents in the AZGS Document Repository collection are made available by the Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS) and the University Libraries at the University of Arizona. For more information about items in this collection, please contact azgs-info@email.arizona.edu.
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