Potash Mining Methods

The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
Henry H. Bruhn Earl H. Miller
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The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
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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.
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APA: Henry H. Bruhn Earl H. Miller  (1954)  Potash Mining Methods

MLA: Henry H. Bruhn Earl H. Miller Potash Mining Methods. The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, 1954.

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