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Ore mineral

Sylvite

The potash mineral. Bitter rather than salty, and mined from beds left by evaporated inland seas.

Sylvite (GeoDIL number - 185) · Shannon Heinle · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

What it is

The potash mineral. Bitter rather than salty, and mined from beds left by evaporated inland seas.

Materials that come from it

Material	Role	Grade note
Potash	The ore mineral	—

Potash

Potassium salts mined from ancient dried-up seas — the K in NPK fertiliser, which plants need to move water and…

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