Mining or in situ disintegration of hard material – In situ conversion of solid to fluid – Dissolving or chemical reaction
Patent
1974-05-17
1976-04-27
Novosad, Stephen J.
Mining or in situ disintegration of hard material
In situ conversion of solid to fluid
Dissolving or chemical reaction
23272AH, 423206T, E21B 4328
Patent
active
039530736
ABSTRACT:
This invention relates to the solution mining of subterranean trona deposits which comprises treating the ore "in situ" with an aqueous solvent containing sodium hydroxide at a concentration of not less than approximately 1% and no greater than that which will leave the brine thus produced with no less than approximately 1.5 parts of sodium bicarbonate per hundred parts of sodium carbonate when saturated.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2625384 (1953-01-01), Pike et al.
patent: 3184287 (1965-05-01), Gancy
Novosad Stephen J.
Spangler, Jr. Edwin L.
Suckfield George A.
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