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Carnallite from
Carlsbad Potash District, New Mexico, USA


Locality type:Mining District
Classification
Species:Carnallite
Formula:KMgCl3 · 6H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Carnallite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Carlsbad Potash District, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:122076
Long-form Identifier:1:3:122076:6
GUID (UUID V4):688d67c6-b820-4bad-9a3b-8a408b921e61
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Carlsbad Potash Basin Carlsbad, New Mexico Philip Simmons Mine Engineer, Intrepid PotashNew Mexico...Mexico, LLC 2422 Mountain View Carlsbad, New Mexico 88220 Within the past three years an occurrence of...purple halite in the Intrepid Potash East mine near Carlsbad, New Mexico has produced world-class specimens...sulfate aphthitalite, have elevated the Carlsbad Potash District to the status of a contemporary classic...INTRODUCTION The Carlsbad Potash District (more commonly known as the Carlsbad Potash Basin) is located
Report (issue)
Bromine in the Salado Formation, Carlsbad Potash District, New Mexico By SAMUEL S. ADAMS 1969 STATE...RESOURCES NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE................................... Governor of New Mexico Leonard DeLayo ............................................................................. Carlsbad Steve S. Torres, Jr. ...........................Sale by New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Campus Station, Socorro, New Mexico 87801—Price
Report (issue)
Carnallite Crystal Data: Orthorhombic. Point Group: 21m 21m 21m. Crystals rare, pseudohexagonal; pyramidal...difference. (3) KMgCI3.6H20. (2) Eddy Co., New Mexico, USA. Occurrence: Thought to form in saline marine...reaction of pre-existing minerals with fluids high in potash. Association: Kieserite, sylvite, halite, polyhalite...Leopoldshall and Westeregeln, near Stassfurt, Magdeburg district, Germany. From Kalusz, Ukraine. At Maman, Azerbaijan...In the USA, in the Permian salt basin of southeastern New Mexico, in the Carlsbad potash district, Eddy
Report (issue)
EXPERIMENTAL DRILL HOLE LOGGING IN POTASH DEPOSITS OP THE CABLSBAD DISTRICT, HEW MEXICO By C. L. Jones, C. G. Bovles...in k. Abridged gamma-ray and graphic logs of a potash deposit envelope 5« Lithologic interpretations... EXPERIMENTAL DRILL HOLE LOGGING Iff POTASH DEPOSITS OP THE CARISBAD DISTRICT, HEW MEXICO By C. L. Jones, C. G. Bowles...holes drilled through potash deposits in the Carlsbad district, southeastern Hew Mexico, demonstrate the considerable...sandstone, and polyhalite beds and from potash deposits containing carnallite, leonite, and kainite. These latter
Report (issue)
Germany; H2 O by difference. (2) Eddy Co., New Mexico, USA. (3) KMgCl3 • 6H2 O. Occurrence: Thought to...pre-existing saline minerals with fluids high in potash. Association: Kieserite, sylvite, halite, polyhalite...Leopoldshall and Westeregeln, near Stassfurt, Magdeburg district, Germany. From Kalusz, Ukraine. At Maman, Azerbaijan...Whitby, Yorkshire. In the USA, in New Mexico, in the Carlsbad potash district, Eddy Co., and adjacent parts...Zoltai (1985) Refinement of the structure of carnallite, Mg(H2 O)6 KCl3 . Amer. Mineral., 70, 1309–1313
Report (issue)
71 3.21 Total 99.78 100.00 (1) Eddy Co., New Mexico, USA; recalculated to oxides from a partial elemental...3H2 O. Occurrence: A secondary mineral in marine potash deposits, formed due to metamorphism or resolution...volcanic sublimate. Association: Sylvite, halite, carnallite, kieserite, polyhalite, langbeinite, picromerite...and many other places nearby; in the Werra-Fulda district, Hesse and Thuringia; on the Asse Mountain, near...Inder, Kazakhstan. In the USA, in the Carlsbad potash district, Eddy Co., New Mexico. Name: From the Greek
Report (issue)
principal ore of potash, mined from marine salt deposits. Association: Carnallite, halite, sylvite...[Jianghan Plain] potash deposits, Hubei Province, China. In the USA, in New Mexico, in commercial quantities...quantities in the Carlsbad potash district, Eddy Co. Name: To honor A. Langbein, of Leopoldshall [Stassfurt]
Report (issue)
Association: Sylvite, polyhalite, kieserite, carnallite, gypsum, anhydrite, dolomite. Distribution:...Punjab, India. In the USA, in the Michigan Basin, underlying Ohio, Michigan, and New York; as numerous salt...and New Mexico; large crystals at the Potash Corporation of America mine, Carlsbad potash district, Eddy...Eddy Co., New Mexico. Name: From the Greek for salt. References: (1) Palache, C., H. Berman, and C.
Report (issue)
metamorphism. Association: Halite, kieserite, kainite, carnallite, polyhalite, gypsum, anhydrite. Distribution:...In the USA, in the Permian salt basin of southeastern New Mexico, in the Carlsbad potash district, Eddy...Eddy Co. with large crystals in the Potash Corporation of America mine, and adjacent parts of Texas. From
Report (issue)
efflorescence. Association: celestine. Halite, carnallite, polyhalite, anhydrite, boracite, sulfoborite...Distribution: In Germany, from the Stassfurt-Westeregeln district, with large crystals from the Bartensleben mine...Punjab, India. In the USA, from the Carlsbad potash district, Eddy Co., New Mexico, extending into west
Report (issue)
100.00 (1) McDowell Well, Glasscock Co., Texas, USA. (2) K2 Ca2 Mg(SO4 )4 • 2H2 O. Occurrence: Common...Association: Halite, anhydrite, glauberite, carnallite, kieserite, langbeinite, vanthoffite. Distribution:...Tirol. In Germany, from the Stassfurt-Westeregeln district, Saxony-Anhalt, and at Berchtesgaden, Bavaria...Vesuvius, Campania, Italy. In England, in the Boulby potash mine, northwest of Whitby, Yorkshire, England....Qinghai Province, China. In the USA, in the Carlsbad potash district, Eddy Co., and adjacent parts of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Received 7 September 2015; accepted in revised form...gravimetrically determined 41K or 39K enriched standards. New precise K isotopic compositions of three terrestrial...re-evaluate these potassium isotope measurements with the new generation of MultipleCollector Inductively Coupled...event or during local volcanic degassing events. New and improved K isotope measurements are needed in...are from Stassfurt, Germany and Carlsbad Potash District, New Mexico, USA. Pacific seawater was collected
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY OF THE CARLSBAD POTASH AREA, EDDY AND LEA COUNTIES;: NEW MEXICO By Arnold L. Brokaw,...mi~ing=-===-=========~====-===============-===== 62 Potash History of Methods of prospecting and explo...Oil and gas Appendix A, Reprint of Permian basin potash deposits, south-western United Sta~es. by c~ L...--Map of the vicinity of the southeastern New potash·mines~ Mexico-----~--------~-~----~~ 5 2.-... Generalized...·through the vicinity ·of the Gnome ·site and the potash mines= ... ---·-.;.-----~-·--_..; __ _ 19 4.ao
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
leaf gold, smoky quark, and turquoise specimens, New Mexico boasts an array of mineral species. RAMON S....Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110 THE PURPOSE OF THIS INDEX is to provide a comprehensive listing of New Mexico...Particular attention was directed toward incorporating new information on discoveries and occurrences, although...to compile all of the mineral occurrences in New Mexico-a venture of that magnitude is beyond the scope...Minerals of New Mexico is the basic reference for locations. Abstracts from the New Mexico mineral symposia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02 138, USA (Received July 2, 1990; accepted in revisedform November...Laboratory, F’O Box 2008, MS 6110, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA. + Present address: Marine Biology Laboratory, The...PETR~~PHY OF THE HALITE SAMPLES Salado Formation, New Mexico and Texas The Salado Formation is part of the...Delaware Basin of west Texas and southeastern New Mexico. The Delaware Basin is a pear-shaped depression...argillaceous halite; the middle unit, the McNutt potash zone, contains sylvite and langbeinite; the lower
Book (edition)
org/details/mineralsofnewmexOOnort MINERALS OF NEW MEXICO Before all things, there which has them ...Henderson, 1933 MINERALS of New Mexico STUART A. NORTHROP University of Mew Mexico PROPERTY OF HBSIER ...UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS ALBUQUERQUE © 1944. 1959. UNIVERSITY OFNEW MEXICO PRESS ALL RIGHTS...BOUND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRINTING PLANT ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, U. S. A. FOR IVAH 1...history of New Mexico mineralogy and mining 3 5 Prehistoric utilization of minerals New New Mexico under
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
genesis, and significance for the evolution of potash deposits in North Yorkshire, U.K. Simon J. Kemp1...samples over an identified ~50 m interval in York Potash Ltd.’s boreholes SM6, SM9, and deflections SM9A...evaporite minerals (e.g., kainite 18.9 wt% K2O, carnallite 17.0 wt% K2O, polyhalite 15.6 wt% K2O), has a...world’s richest-known deposit of polyhalite. York Potash Ltd. has recently commenced construction of the...for the genesis of the North Yorkshire Permian potash deposit. An understanding of kalistrontite distribution
Report (volume)
technology of fertilizermineral deposits of phosphates, potash, and sulfur and suggestions for further exploration...methods___________________________ ___ __ __ __ _ _ __ __ _ Potash deposits____________________________________ ___..._______________________________________ Bedded potash deposits_ _ _ _ __ _ __ _ _ __ __ _ _ _ _ _ ___...crusts______________________ ____ _ __ __ _ _ __ __ _ Other potash sources__________________ __ __ _ _ __ __ __ _...rock salts______________________________________ Potash from sea water, feldspars, and other sources________
Book (volume)
Canada, England, France, Holland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, South Africa and West Germany made the meeting...of solution cavities in salt models and present new data which will be of interest to miners and salt.... 48 Barr en Halite Zones in Potash Deposits, Carlsbad, New Mexico 59 Preferr ed Orientation of Halite...the I. M. C. Potash Deposit, Esterhazy, Saskatchewan . 95 Petr ofabric Analysis of Potash Rocks, Esterhazy...Indicators of Environment During Sylvite and Carnallite Deposition of the Upper Rhine Valley Evaporites
Report (volume)
about 1905, center of the booming White Oaks gold district, Lincoln County, N. Mex. Gold was probably the...Resources of the Roswell Resource Area, East-Central New Mexico By SUSAN BARTSCH-WINKLER and ALESSANDRO J. DONATICH...resources of the Roswell resource area, east-central New Mexico I by Swan Bartsch-Winkler and Alessandro J. Donatich...resources-New Mexico-Roswell Region. 2. PetroleumNew Mexico-Roswell Region. 3. Natural gas-New Mexico-Roswell...Mexico-Roswell Region. 4. Geology-New Mexico-Roswell Region. I. Bartsch-Winkler, S. II. Donatich, Alessandro J.
Report (issue)
New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources A DIVISION OF NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY...and Nancy Gilson New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, New Mexico 87801 SOCORRO,...1996 11 NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Daniel H. Lopez, President NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF...REGENTS Ex Officio Gary Johnson, Governor of New Mexico Alan Morgan, Superintendent of Public Instruction...NMSU NANCY J. McMILLAN, NMSU HOWARD B. NICKELSON, Carlsbad GLENN R. OSBURN, Washington Univ. ALLAN R. SANFORD
Book
in Mexico" "Origin of Nodular and Bedded Anh yd rite in Perrnia n Shelf Sediments, Texas and New Mexico"...Diagenesis" "Recent Halite Rock, Baja California, Mexico" Macmillan (Journals) Ltd.-Nature "Association...Evaporite Basins" Springer-Verlag-Berlin- Heidelberg-New York-Salt Deposits: Their Origin and Composition...resources and i1nmensely diffused sources of material. New colleges and industrial libraries simply cannot afford...with the formation, alteration, or geochemistry of potash salts. Such works comprise the majority of papers
Book
Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-26011-0 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York Library of Congress...community but now other chapters are completely new. perhaps superceded by Google Earth. John K. Warren...A Phanerozoic dilemma: marine versus nonmarine potash?.101 Precambrian oceanic chemistry.105 Hydrology...Sabkha Yotvata, Israel.181 Basin and Range playas, USA.182 Salars of South America.187 Ephemeral stream...300 Lacustrine evaporites.301 Eocene Lake Gosuite, USA.304 Oligo-Miocene lake, Calatayud Basin, Spain.306
Book
BATES STATE PUBLICATIONS, UNIVERSITY INC., NEW YORK Copyright © 1960 by Robert L. Bates. Copyright...in 1960 by Harper & Row. The author has added a new preface and a supplement which appears on pp. 425-442...Sedimentary Minerals and Sulfur Diamond; Diatomite; Potash Borates; Nitrates; Sulfur Minerals; 348 Sodium...Sulfur,” including alluvial diamonds, diatomite, potash and sodium minerals, borates, and nitrates; and...industrial diamonds, chiefly from the Bakwanga district of the Belgian Congo, where the placer operations
Book
OHIO BROTHERS, STATE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK GEOLOGY OF THE INDUSTRIAL ROCKS AND MINERALS...address Harper © Brothers 49 East 33rd Street, New York 16, N.Y. D-K Library of Congress catalog card...Sedimentary Minerals and Sulfur Diamond; Diatomite; Potash Borates; Nitrates; Sulfur Minerals; 348 Sodium...Sulfur,” including alluvial diamonds, diatomite, potash and sodium minerals, borates, and nitrates; and...industrial diamonds, chiefly from the Bakwanga district of the Belgian Congo, where the placer operations
 
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