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China’s Taiwan Province produced 463,000 tons of crude salt in 1996 and 270,500 tons in 1997, all being of sea salt. According to Mineral Commodity Summaries, 1998, published in the United States, the world’s total output of crude salt in 1997 amounted to 201 million tons. The first 5 salt-producing countries in the world were […]

For a time in the 80s of the 20th century, there appeared a situation of demand excee-ding supply on China’s salt market and particularly the edible salt and industrial salt were in short supply, thus unfavorably affecting the social stability. In the terminal 80s, the salt industry developed rapidly, following the implementation of the principle […]

Potash is a usable mineral resource resulting from accumulation of soluble potassium-bearing saline minerals in nature. It includes potassium-bearing brines and soluble solid potassium salts (e.g. sylvite, carnallite etc.) formed by evaporation, concentration and deposition of potassium-bearing water bodies. In the world 95% of the potash is used for fertilizer. The main products are potassium […]

Characteristics of POTASH 1) The potash-forming ages in China are mainly Quaternary, Cretaceous and Triassic. The representative deposits are clastic rock series type potash deposits and saline lake type potash deposits, e.g. the Mengyejing potash deposit in Yunnan and the Qarhan Playa in Qinghai. 2) Liquid resources are dominant. The potash reserves abroad are mainly […]

The situation of supply and demand of potash fertilizer in China is very stern. In 1997 China produced 1.31 million tons of KCl. This production falls far short of the demand and a large amount of potash fertilizer needs to be imported each year to meet the demand of China’s agriculture. Recent imports of potash […]