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Dolomite from
Westvaco mine, Green River Basin, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Dolomite
Formula:CaMg(CO3)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dolomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Westvaco mine, Green River Basin, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:507433
Long-form Identifier:1:3:507433:4
GUID (UUID V4):939d8e14-7df0-428f-89e9-6bcd76430e49
Nearest other occurrences of Dolomite
2.4km (1.5 miles) FMC Green River Trona Mine (Westvaco Mine), Green River Basin, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, USA
5.9km (3.6 miles) Alchem Trona Mine, Green River Basin, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, USA
6.1km (3.8 miles) John Hay Jr. Well No. 1, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, USA
10.3km (6.4 miles) Granger Mine, Green River Basin, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, USA
12.1km (7.5 miles) Big Island Mine (Stauffer), Green River Basin, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, USA
75.7km (47.0 miles) Lodge Pole Phosphate Deposit, Manila Area, Daggett County, Utah, USA
76.9km (47.8 miles) Conner Basin Phosphate Occurrence, Manila Area, Daggett County, Utah, USA
77.4km (48.1 miles) Horseshoe Canyon Phosphate Deposit, Manila Area, Daggett County, Utah, USA
80.0km (49.7 miles) Spring Creek Phosphate Deposit, Manila Area, Daggett County, Utah, USA
95.3km (59.2 miles) Kleins Hill Prospect, O-Wi-Yu-Kuts Mountains, Daggett County, Utah, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Saline Minerals of the Green River Formation GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 405 Saline Minerals...Minerals of the Green River Formation By JOSEPH J. FAHEY With a section on X-RAY POWDER DATA FOR SALINE...SALINE MINERALS OF THE GREEN RIVER FORMATION By MARY E. MROSE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 405...Mining operation. -_-_____--_____-_ Development of mine. _________ Soda ash __ _________-___-_-Rocks containing...gaylussite._____________ Shortite to trona plus dolomite.___. Trona to northupite...-----------Shortite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
C O g ) 2 ,A N E W M I N E R A L F R O M T H E GREEN Rr\rER FORI,IATrON, WYOMTNG* M,q.nvE. Mnosn, E....shale below the main tiona bed in the Westvaco trona mine in Wyoming, associated with shortite, labuntsovite...calcite. The structural relations of norsethite. dolomite. and calcite are discussed. Chemical analysis...engineering geologist of the trona mine at Westvaco, Sweetwater County, Wyoming. INrnonucrroN The new mineral...of the authigenic minerals of the Green River formation of Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. ft occurs in
Report (issue)
75(2) Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Westvaco trona mine, Wyoming, USA. 3.015 (100), 3.860 (35), 2.656 (35)...99.9 [100.00] 100.00 54.44 (1) Westvaco trona mine, Wyoming, USA; CO2 by evolved gas analysis; after...Group: Dolomite group. Occurrence: A rare authigenic mineral in and underlying the Green River Formation;...quartz (Westvaco trona mine, Wyoming, USA). Distribution: In the USA, in the Westvaco trona mine, about...about 30 km west of Green River, Sweetwater Co., Wyoming; and at Iron Hill, Gunnison Co., Colorado. In Canada
Report (issue)
90°25(5)' Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Westvaco mine, Wyoming, USA. 2.655 (100), 3.312 (71), 8.85 (50),...[100.00] 100.00 (1) John Hay, Jr. Well No.1, Wyoming, USA; recalculated to 100% after deduction 0.36%...mineral in oil shale in the Green River formation. Association: Shortite, dolomite, quartz. clay minerals...km west of Green River, and in the Westvaco mine, Green River, Sweetwater Co., Wyoming, USA. Name: Honoring...Wilmot Hyde Bradley (1899-1979), studied the Green River formation. Type Material: geologist, U.S. Geological
Report (issue)
5.26 Z = [4] X-ray Powder Pattern: Sweetwater Co., Wyoming, USA. 12.9 (100), 4.34 (18), 4.51 (7b), 3...(1) John Hay, Jr. Well No. 1, Wyoming, USA; after deduction of dolomite 0.38% and magnesite 0.21% impurities...low-grade oil shale of the Green River Formation (Sweetwater Co., Wyoming, USA). Association: Shortite,...searlesite (Sweetwater Co., Wyoming, USA); sepiolite, analcime, montmorillonite, dolomite (Killik, Turkey)...Turkey). Distribution: In the USA, in core from the John Hay, Jr. Well No. 1 and the Union Paci¯c Well
Journal (issue)
Saline Minerals of the G;reen River Formation . Sweetwater Ca~nty, Wyoming 'sob Werner .,., ·~----------------------...werner@lcturbonet.com In the Green River Basir of Sweetwater County, Wyoming, lies the world's largest,known... below the surface the saline member of the Green River Formation, the Wilkins J>eakMember of Eocene...locality (TL) forth~ spe~ies'.· • ., The Green River Basin began as fresh w~ter lake during the Eocene...secliments were depos,ited iri the deepest parts of the Basin. We know the lake tod;iy as Lake Gpsiute. During-the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RARE-EARTH URANIUM CARBONATE MINERAL FROM THE GREEN RIVER FORMATION, WYOMINGI Cn,q.nlrsMrr-toN, Br,excnn...subsurface localities some 20 miles apart in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. It is the fust known mineral with considerable...UO) from the Green River Formation. Two types are known, one (very rare) in apple green crystals and...not been analyzed, and a more abundant t1pe, dark green or black, massive and in crystal aggregates, both...the first authigenic biotite recognized in the Green River Formation. AII these insoluble constituents are
Report (issue)
= 102.50(3)◦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Sweetwater Co., Wyoming, USA. 2.942 (100), 4.47 (85), 2.648 (40)...[100.2] (1) Diamond Alkali No. 3 drillhole, Wyoming, USA; by a combination of gravimetric and spectrophotometric...mineral formed near trona beds in the Green River Formation (Wyoming, USA); in a differentiated alkalic massif...quartz, labuntsovite, searlesite, leucosphenite (Wyoming, USA); ewaldite, belovite-(Ce), fluorite, nenadkevichite... barite, orthoclase (Khibiny massif, Russia); dolomite, calkinsite-(Ce), carbocernaite, khanneshite,
Report (issue)
Lake Beds of Eocene Age in Intermontane Basins of Wyoming and Utah GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...Geological Survey of Wyoming and the Department of Geology, University of Wyoming, and partly on behalf...Lake Beds of Eocene Age in Intermontane Basins of Wyoming and Utah By J. D. LOVE SHORTER CONTRIBUTIONS TO...Geological Survey of Wyoming and the Department of Geology^ University of Wyoming^ and partly on behalf...lake beds of Eocene age in intermontane basins of Wyoming and Utah. Washintgon, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1964
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
related to calcite and dolomite, was discovered in the Westvaco trona mine in Wyoming where it occurs in...OccURRENcE The principal gangue of the deposit is dolomite. From data collected from bore-holecoresthe norsethiteappearsto...norsethiteappearsto be of hydrothermal origin; it occurs in the dolomite as irregularly shaped veins, as a large body ...or lessequal quantities.Except for ore-minerals,dolomite and to a lesserextent qttartz are always associatedin...the first time by Lippmann (1962) from the barite mine in Hot Spring Countv. Arkansas. 1770 NORSETHITE
Report (issue)
Environmental Geochemistry of the Sweetwater-Kemmerer Area, Wyoming PART A Geology and Mineral Resources...Belt 3 Green River Basin 4 Rock Springs uplift 5 Great Divide Basin 6 Washakie Basin 6 Stratigraphy...,8 11 Green River Basin 11 Rock Springs uplift 12 Great Divide Basin 13 Washakie Basin 13 Paleontology...Adaville Formation Frontier Formation 22 23 Bear River Formation 28 Page Mineral Deposits Continued...Continued Coal Continued Stratigraphy Continued Green River Coal Region Wasatch Formation 28 29 Fort Union Formation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
f u r t h e r m o n t m o r i l l o n i t e , dolomite, pyrite, g y p s u m a n d Loughlinit und Analcim...Mitteleoz~n, Lutetien ~ kristalline Kalke und Dolomite Neogen, Kontinental ~ mesozoischeOphiolithe ~...Mineralassoziation, wie sie bisher nur aus einem Vorkommen in Wyoming in ~hnlicher Art bekannt war. Hauptbestandteil...Sepiolith (Cuka; Ni-Filter) Zoughlinit Sweetwater County Wyoming (FA~EY et al., 1960) Zoughlinit KiUik...dolomitie oil shale") der Green River-Formation in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, bekannt. Von dort wurde
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY TRONA RESOURCES IN THE GREEN RIVER BASIN, SOUTHWEST WYOMING by Stephen V. Wiig, W.D. Grundy... and John R. Dyni A cooperative study of the Wyoming trona deposits between the U.S. Bureau of Land...area, Green River Basin, Wyoming .......................... 2. Federal sodium leases, Green River Basin...Basin, Wyoming ................................. 3. Current trona mine permit areas, Green River Basin, Wyoming...NWSE, Green River Basin, Wyoming ........... 6. Stratigraphic cross section S-N, Green River Basin, Wyoming
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
LEUCOSPHENITE, AND ITS OCCURRENCE IN THE GREEN RIVER FORMATION OF UTAH AND WYOMING ' "A. Pesst, Departmentof Geotoggan"dGeoph...reviewed. Its paragenesis in the Green River Formation in Utah and Wyoming is described and four other known...dimensions of leucosphenite from many sources in the Green River Formation and from Mont St. Eilaire, Quebec,...in sedimentary rocks of the Green River Formation (Eocene)in the Uinta Basin, northeastern Utah. Soon after...also found in the Green River Formation in the Bridger Basin, southwestern Wyoming (Milton, 1957) and
Report (issue)
THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING HORACE D. THOMAS, State Geologist BULLETIN 51 A FIELD GUIDE TO THE...ROCKS AND MINERALS OF WYOMING by William H. Wilson THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING HORACE D. THOMAS,...' 0 MINERALS OF WYOMING By WILLIAM H. WILSO. UN IVERSITY OF WYOMING LARAMIE, WYOMING A GUST, 1965 This...the Department of Geology at the University of Wyoming ( 19 17-631. For more than fift y years his life...life has been devoted toward the understanding of Wyoming geology. but perhaps more important has been his
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sodium magnesium silicate from the Green River formation in Sweetwater County, Wyo., having the formula NazO...the John Hay, Jr., Well No. 1, SweelwaterCounty, Wyoming, in 1940,in which the new mineralsshortite (Fahey...excavatedduring the sinking of the shaft of the Westvaco Chlorine Products Corporation that was put down...and 20 miles west of the town of Green River, SweetwaterCounty, Wyoming. It was not until recently that...Lcughiinite (leached 6 hrs.) after deduction of dolomite and magnesite. B Loughlinite (leached 58 days)
Report (issue)
Geology of Green River Formation and associated Eocene rocks in southwestern Wyoming and adjacent parts...parts of Colorado and Utah By W. H. BRADLEY THE GREEN RIVER AND ASSOCIATED TERTIARY FORMATIONS GEOLOGICAL...1899- Geology of Green River Formation and associated Eocene rocks in southwestern Wyoming and adjacent parts...496-A.) Bibliography: p. 81-84. 1. Geology-Wyoming-Green River Formation. graphic-Eocene. (Series) 2. Geology...Faults----------------------------------------Wind River thrust fault ____________________ _ Uinta fault
Report (volume)
masses of altered tuff. The associated minerals are dolomite, a magnesium silicate (a member of the serpentine...clear, but it is probably later than most of the dolomite. The hard, dense, white nodules are distributed...magnesia, that formed the magnesium silicate, dolomite, and nodular magnesite. Later solutions deposited...in the western group is 42 miles by highway and mine road from Ely. The eastern group is in the northwestern...Paleozoic rocks, whereas to the east is a broad basin or plain sloping gently eastward. This plain separates
Report (issue)
Associated Authigenic Minerals of the Green River Formation of Wyoming Geochemistry and Paleolimnology...of the Green River Formation of Wyoming By W. H. BRADLEY and H. P. EUGSTER THE GREEN RIVER AND GEOLOGICAL...composition of the Wilkins Peak Member of the Green River Formation__________________ Saline facies of...distribution of the members of the Green River Formation in southwestern Wyoming and adjacent parts of Colorado...relations of the trona and trona-halite beds in the Green River Ba&n----------------------------------------
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
et al. (1961) from the Green River formation at Westvaco trona mine in Wyoming, U.S.A. Theseauthors recognized...relationship of norsethite to both calcite and dolomite. From single crystal precession photographs they...group in norsethite is clearIy aplanar. As in dolomite, theapex of the very flat pyramid points towards...this aplanarity is considerably larger than in dolomite, where d = 0.018(1) A was found by Effenberger...calcite, rhodoehrosite, siderite, smithsonite, and dolomite, with diseussion of some aspeets of the stereoehemistry
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
et al. (1961) from the Green River formation at Westvaco trona mine in Wyoming, U.S.A. Theseauthors recognized...relationship of norsethite to both calcite and dolomite. From single crystal precession photographs they...group in norsethite is clearIy aplanar. As in dolomite, theapex of the very flat pyramid points towards...this aplanarity is considerably larger than in dolomite, where d = 0.018(1) A was found by Effenberger...calcite, rhodoehrosite, siderite, smithsonite, and dolomite, with diseussion of some aspeets of the stereoehemistry
Book
casp WYOMING GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 10th ANNUAL FIELD CONFERENCE 1955 GREEN RIVER BASIN COURTESY...DEPARTMENT OF ARCH I VES AND WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING, LARAMlli: FLAMING GORGE P late from Clarence...published in 1878. COPYR I G H T , 19 55 , BY WYOMING GEOLOG I CAL ASSOC IATION WYOIY.ING 2 TENTH...Camp, member of the faculty of the University of Wyoming for 40 years, and W yom ing State Geologist fo...building, and directing of the Unive rsi ty of Wyoming Science camp . Its reputation for excellence is
Report (issue)
Bibliography of the Geology of the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, to March 1,1977 Bibliography... Bibliography of the Geology of the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, to March 1, 1977 By Marjorie...Bibliography of the geology of the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, to March 1, 1977. (Geological...Bibliography of the geology of the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming ... II. Series: United States...Geological Survey reports on the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming - - 2 Reports by U.S
Report (issue)
Bibliography of the Geology of the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, to July 1, 1986 By Marjorie...Geological Survey reports on the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming............................authors on geology of the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming in non-U.S. Geological Survey...Geological Survey authors on geology of the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyomi ng........ BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GEOLOGY OF THE GREEN RIVER FORMATION, COLORADO, UTAH, AND WYOMING, TO JULY 1, 1986 By Marjone
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By F. HAROLD WEBER JR., California...parts of several sections, by R. M. Stewart COUNTY REPORT California Division of Mines Ferry Building...CAMPBELL, Director AND GEOLOGY State Geologist COUNTY REPORT ^ Price $8.00 3 CONTENTS Page ABSTRACT...(Cretaceous) , Gabbroic rocks Granitic rocks Green Valley _. tonalite Lakeview Mountain tonalite...undivided and older Quaternary _ rocks of the Salton Basin _ Miocene rocks Split Mountain formation Alverson
 
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