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Gold/Mining/Energy : Naxos Resources (NAXOF)
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To: mark silvers who wrote (11936)4/17/1998 10:25:00 AM
From: Tim Hall  Read Replies (1) of 20681
 
Mark,

Trona is a Sodium Carbonate, also referred to as soda ash. It's main use is in glass making. It occurs as thick sedimentary beds around SW Wyoming and is mined with conventional coal mining techniques. It used to be produced synthetically in the east by combining salt and calcium carbonate. The by product was calcium chloride which is not very soluble and coated the bottoms of lakes and rivers with white slime. I believe all of the synthetic plants are closed now for environmental reasons.

I would also suspect that there are some trona or sodium carbonate deposits at Franklin Lake. There is a town called Trona about 50 miles west of Tecopa and their are known deposits in California which have been mined. They are shallow and not very thick or as pure as the Wyoming trona.

Tim Hall
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