Mineral Resources of the Devils Playground and Twin Buttes Wilderness Study Areas, Sweetwater County, Wyoming

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• Personal Author:
  Bryant WA ; Lane ME ; Van Loenen RE
• Description:
  In 1990 the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Bureau of Mines conducted a mineral resource appraisal of the Devils Playground (WY-040-401) and the Twin Buttes (WY-040-402) Wilderness Study Areas in Sweetwater County in southwest Wyoming. The study areas contain 1.2 billion tons of inferred resources of trona (a mineral used in making soda ash). The study areas have high mineral resource potential for additional deposits of trona, high energy resource potential for natural gas and oil shale, moderate mineral resource potential for zeolites, and low energy and mineral resource potential for oil, coal, and metallic minerals. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Minerals Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Mineral Deposits
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Publisher:
  U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; OSHA Region 8 ; Wyoming
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  IFOC - Intermountain Field Operations Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-28
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20051703
• Citation:
  Washingtion, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Bulletin 1759, 1991 Jan; :1-28
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1991
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Mineral resources of the Devils Playground and Twin Buttes wilderness study areas, Sweetwater County, Wyoming
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:68e432655ff398ccfa44ddd5c10e8ee4b2e92af39a210119b3766b4e073c46f919515f9830d119c41b8f50fc883f85a4cda67839ae2cadc87a35e4f0d6158306
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/227676/cdc_227676_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.02 MB ]