Potash Mining Methods

- Organization:
- The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
- Pages:
- 5
- File Size:
- 1302 KB
- Publication Date:
- Jan 6, 1954
Abstract
COMMERCIAL beds of sylvite ore were discovered by the Snowden & McSweeney Co. while drilling a wildcat oil well some 25 miles northeast of Carlsbad, N. NI., in 1925. After a preliminary core drilling program the U. S. Potash Co. sank a 1060-ft shaft within 4 miles of the original discovery. This shaft was in an isolated location in a sand desert area with only the roughest of dirt roads connecting it with the neigh- boring town of Carlsbad some 21 ½ miles west.
Citation
APA:
(1954) Potash Mining MethodsMLA: Potash Mining Methods. The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, 1954.