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CARNALLITE (Hydrated Potassium Magnesium Chloride) (689 words) |
 | Carnallite is an important source of potash, an invaluable fertilizer. |
| However the Black Sea does not form carnallite because it is not located in a warm enough climate as intensive evaporation is needed (this is an evaporite mineral after all). |
| Carnallite is extremely light with a specific gravity of only 1.6 and it also shows a violet flame result when it is put in a gas flame due to its potassium content, unlike kieserite and other non-potassium salts. |
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Carnallite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (292 words) |
| Carnallite occurs with a sequence of potassium and magnesium evaporite minerals sylvite, kainite, picromerite, polyhalite and kieserite. |
| Carnallite is a somewhat rare double chloride mineral which only forms under a specific environmental conditions in an evaporating sea or sedimentary basin. |
| It is mined for both potassium and magnesium and occurs in the evaporite deposits of Carlsbad, New Mexico; the Paradox Basin in Colorado and Utah; Strassfurt, Germany; the Perm Basin, Russia; and the Williston Basin in Saskatchewan, Canada. |
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