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Show LAVA IN WYOMING IS RICH IN POTASH Government Geologists Making Interesting Interest-ing Experiments on Way to Extract Ex-tract tne Mineral. WASHINGTON, June 3 The geological geo-logical survey annoir-Ofs that it lias marie known for a number of years that a lava iu the Loucite bills, Sweetwater bounty, Wyo.. is coin posed larclv of leucite, a mineral rich in potash'. "This lava, orjled wyominjrite, is there very abundant, and the total quantity of potash pot-ash it, contains j titmouse, estimated at '200,000.000 tons. Like the eold in sea water, however, it has not yet been profitably extracted. extract-ed. In a scrips of experimental studies of - the reactions of various salts on wyomincite under certain condition?, t?ocr C Wells nf the -chemical iahora-ion- of the Tnited States feoloctoal survey, has obtained interesting results as to thr extraction of potash from i wyominpite, which are published in the survey 's professional paper. OS-D. M r. Wells's pap-or may prove sueeestive to chemists who are studying met hods of extraction of potash from igneous rocks. A -opy of fh report may be obtained free on application to the director nf the United States coloica) survey, a.- h-iii,tou. h-iii,tou. D. C. |