Wyoming · Sweetwater County
Producer

Green River trona deposit

Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States
SodiumSoda AshSodium Carbonate
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Description

Mountain Fuel Supply Company (encountered trona while drilling the John Hay Jr. No. 1 wellfor oil)

Commodities
PrimarySodium, Soda Ash, Sodium Carbonate
Materials
Ore mineralsTrona
Geology
Host rockEvaporite · Wilkins Peak Member of the Green River Formation
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
First production1953
Discovery year1938
Identification
Deposit ID10400473
Alternate namesOCI (10107384), Solvay, FMC Granger Mine (10254740), General Chemical (10080548), Church & Dwight Co, Inc., Green River Trona District, Green River Formation trona deposits, Green River basin trona deposit, Lake Gosiute, Wyoming trona deposits, Wilkens Peak Member trona deposits
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates41.59444, -109.8
References
PARKER, R.B, ed., 1971, Contribuitions to Geology--Trona Issue: Larmie, Wyoming, Univ. of Wyoming, v. 10, no. 1, p. 1-72. [Contains papers by Wolfbauer; Goodwin; Culbertson; Deardorff and Mannion; Steele; Frint; Eugster; Milton; McGrew; and Parker and Surdam.]Root, F.K., Glass, G.B., and Lane, D.W., 1973, Sweetwater County, Woming--Geologic map atlas and summary of economic mineral resources: Geological Survey of Wyoming, County Resource Series No. 2, scale 1:500,000. [plate of Trona uranium, and other minerals]Bradley, W.H., and Eugster, H.P., 1969, Geochemistry and paleolimnology of the trona deposits and associated authigenic minerals of the Green River Formation of Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 496B, 71 p.Dyni, J.R., and Jones, R.W., eds., 1998, Proceedings of the First International Soda Ash Conference, Vol. II: Wyoming State Geological Survey Public Information Circular No. 40, 215 p.FAHEY, J.J., 1962, Saline minerals of the Green River Formation: USGS Professional Paper 405, 50 p.MINING MAGAZINE, JANUARY 1989, P. 45.Wigg, Grundy, and Dynni, 1995, Trona resources in the Green river basin, southwest Wyoming: USGS OFR 95-476, 88 p.Harris, Ray E., 1997, Fifty years of Wyoming Trona Mining, in McCutcheon T.J., nad McCutcheon, JA., eds, Prospect to Pipeline: Wyoming Geological Association 48th Guidebook, p. 177-182.Culbertson, W.C., 1966, Trona in the Wilkins Peak Member of the Green River Formation, southwestern Wyoming: USGS Professional Paper 550B, p. B160, table 1.FMC Chemicals Press release: [http://www.fmcchemicals.com/LinkClick.aspx%3Flink%3DContent%252FDocs%252FFMC%2Bto%2BContinue%2BCurtailment%2Bof%2BGranger%2BSoda%2BAsh%2BFacility%2B073009%2BFINAL.pdf%26tabid%3D838%26mid%3D2589+granger&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjILVa_h1yRQGxyTx_A-uWmUyYBmYIt9XzxB7jwu4IwRHOl9h2Awa21JRIPdp4GyY_XDBbgCXKwFQZRwb4LXu4J0dKeqmHxP5z3SHuk3x3FZpqpsbO_7wkt5rNeTkioGg_A646j&sig=AHIEtbSyvYa-KrkGcGYDFij7rf6TzDAzWQ] accessed 6/6/10.http://www.genchem.com/the-green-river-facility.asp [last accessed 09-NOV-2009] and http://www.genchem.com/pdf/Green%20River%20Soda%20Ash%20Facility.pdf [last accessed 07-jun-2010]http://www.wma-minelife.com/trona/tronmine/graphics/KSLA2005.pdf [accessed 12-NOV-2009, Anadarko Petroleum Corp. Sodium Lease Area map]Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bull. 50, p. 166-167.