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Excerpt from Special Reports on the Mineral Resources of Great Britain, Vol. 5: Potash, Felspar, Phosphate of Lime, Alum Shales, Plumbago or Graphite, Molybdenite, Chromite, Talc and Steatite (Soapstone, Soap-Rock and Potstone), Diatomite
This report deals with certain potash-bearing minerals which occur more or less abundantly in Great Britain, but which, up to the present, have not been successfully utilised as a source of potash, although imported material has been extensively used in the manufacture of pottery and in other industries.
Most of the world's supply of otash is obtained from natural deposits which were formed by t e evaporation of saline water. Of such deposits those Of Stassfurt, in Prussia, may be considered typical, but they find no counterpart in Britain.
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