Mine detail: Beloruskaliy Combine/Enterprise

Previously called 'Starobin/Soligorsk DepositSoligorsk #1Soligorsk #2Soligorsk #3Soligorsk #4Nezhin Nizhin DepositSoligorsk Mining Region/Area'

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Location

Lat / long: 52.79842, 27.53546

Resource(N)

Primary: Potassium
Other material: Anhydrite, Carnallite, Dolomite, Gypsum, Halite, Sylvite
Discovery year: 1940

Production

Operation type: Underground
Development status: Plant
First production started: 1963

Geology

References

MAS4530000001
DEP10158134
Reference{Deposit:: INDUSTRIAL MINERALS. POTASH--INDUSTRY RESHAPED IN GOVERN-}{Deposit:: MENT HANDS. FEBRUARY 1977, PP. 15, 23-26, 28-29.}{Deposit:: MINING JOURNAL. SOVIET PROJECTS ADVANCE. OCTOBER 21, 1977,}{Deposit:: P. 336.}{Deposit:: GRUNDSTEDT, H. G. SOVIETS TRIPLE POTASH OUTPUT; SOLIGORSK}{Deposit:: MINES LEAD EXPANSION. WORLD MINING, DECEMBER 1967, PP.}{Deposit:: 24-27.}{Deposit:: U. S. BUREAU OF MINES. THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF THE U.S.S.R.}{Deposit:: IN MINERALS YEARBOOK, V. I, 1973, P. 897.}{Deposit:: SUTULOV, A. MINERAL RESOURCES AND THE ECONOMY OF THE USSR.}{Deposit:: MCGRAW-HILL, INC., NEW YORK, 1973, PP. 170-174.}{Deposit:: WORLD SURVEY OF POTASH RESOURCES, THE BRITISH SULPHUR CORP.}{Deposit:: LTD, 1984 4TH ED. PP76-81.}{Deposit:: SOVIET UNION, THE POTASH INDUSTRY OF BYELORUSSIA - SURVIVING}{Deposit:: HARD TIMES; PHOSPHORUS AND POTASSIUM #174, JULY-AUGUST,}{Deposit:: 1991, THE BRITISH SULPHUR CORP. LTD.}
ReporterBuckingham, David A.