US’s Bureau of Land Management Kemmerer Field Office is seeking public comment before beginning a draft environmental impact statement to analyze resource concerns associated with the proposed Dry Creek Trona Mine Project, located in Sweetwater County in Wyoming. The 30-day public scoping period will end on May 31, 2022.In April 2021, Pacific Soda, LLC and Atlantic Soda, LLC submitted a project proposal to the BLM to construct mining facilities and employ solution mining technologies to mine trona on leased BLM-administered land. The proposed project area would include about 6,000 acres south of the town of Green River, Wyoming. Mining would occur on each section for 9 to 10 years, lasting a total of 25 years. Trona is a mineral used to make baking soda as well as soda ash, which is a component of lithium batteries and glass used for solar energy. Mined trona would be refined to produce approximately 5.5 million metric tons of marketable soda ash and 400,000 tons per year of baking soda per year.
US’s Bureau of Land Management Kemmerer Field Office is seeking public comment before beginning a draft environmental impact statement to analyze resource concerns associated with the proposed Dry Creek Trona Mine Project, located in Sweetwater County in Wyoming. The 30-day public scoping period will end on May 31, 2022.In April 2021, Pacific Soda, LLC and Atlantic Soda, LLC submitted a project proposal to the BLM to construct mining facilities and employ solution mining technologies to mine trona on leased BLM-administered land. The proposed project area would include about 6,000 acres south of the town of Green River, Wyoming. Mining would occur on each section for 9 to 10 years, lasting a total of 25 years. Trona is a mineral used to make baking soda as well as soda ash, which is a component of lithium batteries and glass used for solar energy. Mined trona would be refined to produce approximately 5.5 million metric tons of marketable soda ash and 400,000 tons per year of baking soda per year.