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Occurrence in Sweetwater county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Sodium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10157800
MAS/MILS ID 560370307
Record type Site
Current site name Unknown

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.9156, 41.9692 (WGS84)
Elevation 1983

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweetwater(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hansen Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rawlins(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rawlins(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Great Divide Closed Basin(hydrologic unit)

Great Divide Closed Basin(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Divide-Upper Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Sweetwater

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 023N 093W 16 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sodium Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.9156, 41.9692

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    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]

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, Mineral Resources of Wyoming: Geological Survey of Wyoming Bulletin 50, p. 167, #5.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Recent playa lake sodium sulfate and sodium carbonate deposits.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2009-11-16 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.