Possible Economic Value of Trona-Leonardite Mixtures

The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
Vernon E. Swanson Tom G. Ging
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The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
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Jan 1, 1973

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Experiments indicate that simple addition of water to mixtures of untreated trona and otherwise insoluble leonardite yields a rich, black, slightly alkaline solution of concentrated humic substances. Prices of both trona from Wyoming and leonardite from South Dakota and Wyoming are very similar-$10-30 per ton. Leonardite is the term commonly given to naturally weathered, oxidized coal that is readily soluble in slightly alkaline water.1 Several tens of thousands of
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APA: Vernon E. Swanson Tom G. Ging  (1973)  Possible Economic Value of Trona-Leonardite Mixtures

MLA: Vernon E. Swanson Tom G. Ging Possible Economic Value of Trona-Leonardite Mixtures. The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, 1973.

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