Kainite is only found in comparatively few places, among them in salt mines in central and northern Germany, Bad Ischl ( Austria ), on Pasquasia in Sicily, in Whitby ( UK ), and in the Carlsbad Potash District in New Mexico, in volcanic deposits in Kamchatka and in Iceland, and in salt lakes in western China.
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It is more commonly found in the kainite zones of some marine salt deposits, among them salt mines in Thuringia, Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt ( Germany ), near Hall in Tirol, Hallstatt and Bad Ischl ( Austria ), near Whitby ( UK ), and in the Carlsbad Potash District ( New Mexico ), also on salt lakes in western China.
