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Pakistan Stratigraphy
Mine or economic-geology site Precambrian

Khewra Salt Mine

Salt Range · also Mayo Salt Mine

One of the world's oldest and largest rock-salt mines, worked into the Ediacaran–Early Cambrian Salt Range Formation at the eastern end of the Salt Range. The mine exposes the halite–gypsum–marl evaporite sequence that also forms the basal décollement of the Salt Range–Potwar fold-and-thrust belt.

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