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Langbeinite--A uniquely New Mexico potash mineral

Norbert T. Rempe

https://doi.org/10.58799/NMMS-1980.13

Langbeinite, K₂SO₄-2MgSO₄, an accessory in many potash deposits, is mined only in New Mexico. Used as specialty fertilizer, its mineralogy is well known, but its genetic position in the depositional and metamorphic sequence of the Carlsbad district is not yet fully understood.

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2cd Annual New Mexico Mineral Symposium
November 25-26, 1980, Socorro, NM
Print ISSN: 2836-7294
Online ISSN: 2836-7308