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Chelkar salt dome, Aksai Valley, Aqtöbe Oblysy (Aktubinsk [Aktyubinsk; Aktubinskaya] Oblast'), Kazakhstan

The Chelkar salt deposit, Caspian Depression, western Kazakhstan, covers 1,250 square miles and is nearly five miles deep.

Ref. Lobanova, V.V. (1963) Zap. Vses. Mineral. Ob.: 92: 697.





Mineral List:
Aksaite (TL)
Anhydrite
Bischofite
Boracite
Carnallite
Chelkarite (TL)
Ginorite
Halite
Halurgite (TL)
Hilgardite
Hydroboracite
Kaliborite
Kieserite
Kurgantaite
Magnesite
Metaborite (TL)
Novgorodovaite (TL)
Pinnoite
Preobrazhenskite
Strontioborite
Tatarskite (TL)


21 entries listed. 20 valid minerals. 6 type localities (valid minerals).

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