


Gold Smelting & Refining Process - Mineral … - Sodium Carbonate - Cosmetics Info
· currently mine three beds of trona in Wyoming and one company mines a bed of nahcolite in Colorado. Other sodium carbonate minerals in the Green River Formation that may have future economic potential include dawsonite (NaAl(OH) 2. CO. 3), eitelite (Na. 2. CO. 3.MgCO. 3), and shortite (Na. 2. CO. 3.2CaCO. 3). Several sodium carbonate brines in ... · Copenhafer et al., U.S. Pat. No. 5,283,054, discloses a method for producing soda ash from a brine produced by solution mining. Sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate are contained in the dilute brine, which is heated from about 100° C. to about 140° C. to evaporate water, to convert sodium bicarbonate to sodium carbonate, and to drive off ...
