 | | Report (issue) | | SODIUM CARBONATE BRINE AND TRONA DEPOSITS IN SWEETWATER COUNTY, WYOMING UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT... SODIUM CARBONATE BRINE AND TRONA DEPOSITS IN SWEETWATER COUNTY, WYOMING By H. B. Lindeman Washington...carbonate brine and trona deposits, Sweetwater County, Wyo. SODIUM CARBONATE BRINE AND TRONA DEPOSITS IN SWEETWATER...SWEETWATER COUNTY, WYOMING By H. B. Lindeman CONTENTS Page Page Introduction••••••••••••••••••••••••••......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Green River area. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Eden |  | | 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...relationship, and the economic importance of the trona UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...Mining operation. -_-_____--_____-_ Development of mine. _________ Soda ash __ _________-___-_-Rocks containing |  | | Report (issue) | | SURVEY TRONA DEPOSITS IN THE GREEN RIVER BASIN, SWEETWATER, UINTA, AND LINCOLN COUNTIES, WYOMING By M...HISTORY OF TRONA MINING DEVELOPMENT 2 STRUCTURE 3 STRATIGRAPHY _ _. _. _. .-. -._ .-._-. Green River...Bed 14 18. Bed 15 19. Bed 16 20. Bed 17 (Westvaco bed) 21. Bed 18 22. Bed 19 23. Bed 20 24...analyses of trona beds in the Green River Basin 2. Estimated identified resources of trona, and intermixed...intermixed trona and halite, by bed, in the Green River Basin- CONVERSION TABLE To convert feet Multiply |  | Mrose, M. E., Chao, E. C. T., Fahey, J. J., Milton, C. (1961) Norsethite, BaMg(CO3)2, a new mineral from the Green River Formation, Wyoming. American Mineralogist, 46 (3-4) 420-429 | 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...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...quantities at the Westvaco trona mine which is about 18 miles west of Green River, Wyoming. So far, norsethite |  | | 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...rare authigenic mineral in and underlying the Green River Formation; a primary mineral in carbonatites;...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 |  | | 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...known deposit of "soda ash", Trona, NaiCO 3)(HCO 3) • 2H;o, see Fig. I. Between a depth of about 1,250... 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SEARLESITE FROM THE GREEN RIVER FORMATION OF WYOMING* Josrrn J. Farruvt Wrru X-Rev Norus nv Josnru M...sodium borosilicate, is in the Green River formation of soutirwestern Wyoming. It is found in flat anhedral...subhedral crystals as much as 7 inches long in the trona bed, 10 feet thick, at a depth of 1500 feet. The...The optical properties of the searlesite from Wyoming are in close agreement with those previously published...the Wyoming mineral as searlesite. fNrnonucrroN The Green River formation in southwestern Wyoming affords |  | | 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 |  | | 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%...in the Green River formation. Association: Shortite, dolomite, quartz. clay minerals, trona, pirssonite...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) | | = 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...rare mineral formed near trona beds in the Green River Formation (Wyoming, USA); in a differentiated alkalic...quartz, labuntsovite, searlesite, leucosphenite (Wyoming, USA); ewaldite, belovite-(Ce), fluorite, nenadkevichite...Afghanistan). Distribution: In the USA, in the Westvaco trona mine, the John Hay, Jr. Well No. 1, the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | HABIT SIMULATING TWINNING FROM THE GREEN RIVER FORMATION OF WYOMING A. Pansr, Department of Geologyand...shows that pyrite crystals from the Green River Formation of Wyoming which have been referred to as twins...Formation in these words:"Pyrite is very abundant in Green River beds. Its crystal form is varied and unusual...being in platy crystals of bizarre shapes,and in Wyoming, in extraordinar)' trillings [?] [plate 3b]." The...crystals are from lhe Westvaco mine near Green River, SweetwaterCounty, Wyoming, and that they "come embedded |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...Specimens of fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com |  | | Report (issue) | | Transparent to translucent. Color: Colorless, pale green if ferroan, or due to inclusions may be pale yellow...X-ray Powder Pattern: John Hay, Jr. Well No. 1, Wyoming, USA. 2.488 (100), 2.706 (71), 8.132 (60), 2.122...Lake, California, USA; average of two analyses. (2) John Hay, Jr. Well No. 1, Wyoming, USA. (3) Na3 Mg(CO3... pirssonite (Searles Lake, California, USA); shortite, trona, pirssonite, gaylussite, labuntsovite, searlesite...loughlinite, pyrite, quartz (Green River Formation, Wyoming, USA). Distribution: In the USA, from Searles Lake |  | Milton, Charles, Ingram, Blanche, Clark, Joan R., Dwornik, Edward J. (1965) Mckelveyite, a new hydrous sodium barium rare-earth uranium carbonate mineral from the Green River Formation, Wyoming. American Mineralogist, 50 (5-6) 593-612 | 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) | | 5.26 Z = [4] X-ray Powder Pattern: Sweetwater Co., Wyoming, USA. 12.9 (100), 4.34 (18), 4.51 (7b), 3...[99.51] 100.00 (1) John Hay, Jr. Well No. 1, Wyoming, USA; after deduction of dolomite 0.38% and magnesite...low-grade oil shale of the Green River Formation (Sweetwater Co., Wyoming, USA). Association: Shortite,... northupite, searlesite (Sweetwater Co., Wyoming, USA); sepiolite, analcime, montmorillonite, dolomite...dolomite (Killik, Turkey). Distribution: In the USA, in core from the John Hay, Jr. Well No. 1 and the Union |  | Roehler, Henry W., Swanson, Vernon Emanuel, Sanchez, J.D. (1977) Summary report of the geology, mineral resources, engineering geology, and environmental geochemistry of the Sweetwater-Kemmerer area, Wyoming: Part A, Geology and mineral resources. Open-File Report Vol. 1977 (77-360) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr77360 | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | GEOLOGICAL SURVEY TRONA RESOURCES IN THE GREEN RIVER BASIN, SOUTHWEST WYOMING by Stephen V. Wiig...and John R. Dyni A cooperative study of the Wyoming trona deposits between the U.S. Bureau of Land Management...Composition of the trona beds ........................ 12 Methods of determining trona resources .........Geostatistical methods ............................... 33 Trona resources ........................................area, Green River Basin, Wyoming .......................... 2. Federal sodium leases, Green River Basin |  | | 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) | | Color: Colorless to white, pale gray, bright to pale green, pale yellow; colorless in transmitted light. Luster:...quartz. Distribution: In England, from the Bleagill mine, Alston, Cumbria, and at Holwell, Mendip Hills,...Somerset. From Llantrisant, Wales. In the Himmelsfürst mine, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. At Střibro, Czech Republic...massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia. At the Ediacara mine, west of Beltana, and from north of Angaston, Mount...the USA, from the Westvaco trona mine, about 30 km west of Green River, Sweetwater Co., Wyoming; in the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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...eozi~nen dolomitischen 01sehiefer der Green River-Formation in Wyoming, Utah und Colorado bezeichnen (BRADLEY...finden ihn in triassisehen Ablagerungen yon West-Wyoming und Ost-Utah, VA~ HOUTE~ und 0LSON (1957) in obertriassisehen |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and dolomite, was discovered in the Westvaco trona mine in Wyoming where it occurs in microscopic quantities...the first time by Lippmann (1962) from the barite mine in Hot Spring Countv. Arkansas. 1770 NORSETHITE...X-uv Pouonn Drllnecrton Norsethite, Westvaco trona mine, Wyoming. Mrose et al. (1961) s I",t 5.584...Norsethite, Rosh Pinah (Continued) Norsethite, Wyoming (Continued) lest 35 35 25 25 1.222 1. 2 0 2...with sodium light, are similar to those of the Wyoming nors e t h i t e ,c . r : 1 . 6 9 4 * 0 . 0 0 1e: |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 510, a'1.528, X brou'nish-yellow, Z dark olive-green. Fibrous, greenishbrown, transparent. The mineral...BaMg(CO3)r, a new mineral from the Green River formation, Wyoming, Bull. Geol. Soc. Am.,7O 1646 (1959)...shale bclow the main trona beC in the Westvaco trona mine, Sweetwater Countl', Wyoming, associated with shortite...name is for Keith Norseth, geologist of the Westvaco trona mine. M. F. Fenaksite M. D. DonnrreN, D. D. Rocacnrv...silica. It fuses easily before the blowpipe to a green glass; in the reducing flame, the powder becomes |  | | 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 (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 |  | | 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 |
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