The Danakhil potash project's scoping study outlined a 1-million-tonne per year solution mine in Ethiopia's Danakhil basin in Ethiopia, East Africa. The capital cost figure, which included port and other infrastructure, “makes this project one of the lowest-cost and potentially highest-return potash
The proposed project area is located in Ethiopia's North-Eastern desert area of Danakil Depression, covering 160km², about 100km from the Eritrean Red Sea coast and 600km by road from the port of Djibouti. The area has potential for solution mining and open-pit mining, with production for potassium chloride