carnarvon evaporite beds

The Carnarvon drilling has now commenced. These evaporite beds can be large in area and represent an excellent target.

A recent post by Juggernaut gave some background on this area and the reason that Ruane Research probably picked up on it.

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nice research Vayama,

some nice thickness, with a more competant driller we should be able to recover the intercepts and get some idea on the grades and thickness.

CARNARVON BASIN POTASH PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS:

• Three widely spaced drill wells drilled in the late 1960’s intercepted significant intervals of salt layers some of which hosted potash beds:
o Yaringa No.1 - combined 38 metres thick from 1,198 m. to 1,268 m.
o Hamelin Pool No. 1 - combined 17.7 metres thick from 1,234 m. to 1,295 m.
o Hamelin Pool No. 2 - combined 5.2 metres thick from 1,140 m to 1,177 m.
• The three wells span a distance of 25 kilometres. Due to the indicated lateral continuity and the enclosing beds intercepted
within these wells, the potential for a significant potash deposit exists. Regional gravity data indicates that the evaporitic
horizons may have developed in a sub-basin exceeding fifty kilometres in length and suggest that the sub-basin is nested
within the much larger, but locally complex Southern Carnarvon Basin.
• In 1968, based on the results from the first of these wells, Yaringa No. 1, Continental Oil commissioned Hazen Research to undertake a series of potash recovery feasibility tests using solar evaporation of a brine estimated to contain 5.3% potassium chloride (KCL), which is a substantially higher grade than that at some profitable mines operating in other parts of the world.
• The project is ideally situated on the coast of Western Australia, adjacent to the major North West Coastal Highway which can be used to access several port facilities in the region.