Report of Investigations 8008: Determination of Carbonate Minerals of Green River Formation Oil Shales, Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado

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• Personal Author:
  Robb, William A. ; Smith, John W. ; Young, Neil B.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Bureau of Mines
• Description:
  Carbonate minerals constitute a major fraction of the oil shale in Colorado's Green River Formation. Quantification of carbonate minerals is important for the characterization of oil shale, particularly because of their thermal activity in production of oil from shale. The carbonate minerals found in this oil shale are nahcolite (nahco3), dawsonite [naal(oh)2co3], dolomite [mg1-x fex)ca(co3)2], calcite (caco3), and ferroan [(mg1-x fex)co3]. Although carbonate minerals can be removed by acid extraction from the balance of the oil shale, direct determination of carbonate minerals is complicated by the occurrence of the same cations in more than one mineral. A method for assigning the acid-soluble cations to the individual carbonate minerals was developed from two assumptions based on oil shale geochemistry: (1) calcite and ferroan do not occur together, and (2) the ratio of iron and magnesium is the same in dolomite and ferroan. These assumptions were tested by the Bureau of Mines by applying the technique for assigning cations to 219 samples from the saline section of the formation. The reported carbonate mineral amounts were compared statistically with x-ray diffraction peak heights, verifying the cation assignment method. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Minerals Occupational Health Oil And Gas Industry Safety
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• ISSN:
  1066-5552 (print)
• Publisher:
  United States. Bureau of Mines
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Case Report
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; OSHA Region 8
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  LERC - Laramie Energy Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  50 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10008104
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-240669
• Citation:
  NTIS: PB 240 669 :41 pages
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1975
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  NTIS: PB 240 669
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:78e38a9202815b64adcf5caebfe31afeeddb48e0bb38baf22ab1b28a5f00e502fc44c68d16e42179aa081252e896eb34147fc5009c7e98cd232f1fe7006a209b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201901/cdc_201901_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.45 MB ]