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Show Potash Extracted From Wyoming Lava lt Iiob been known for a number of yenrs that n lava in tho Kcuclto Hills Sweetwater County, Wyoming, is composed largely of leuctte, n mineral miner-al ricli in potash. This lava, called Wyommg'.te, is there very abundant, and tha total quantity of potash It contnlns Is lm-menso, lm-menso, estimated at 200,000,000 tons, I.iko tho gold in sea wntcr, however, it hag not yet been profitably extracted. ex-tracted. In a series of experimental studies stud-ies of tho reactions of various salts on Wyomfngito under certain conditions, condi-tions, Roger C. Wells, of tho clicml-jcal clicml-jcal hboratory ot tho United States geological Survey has obtained In-jtcrestlng In-jtcrestlng results as to tho extraction of potash from Wyomlnglte, which nro published in the Survey's Professional Pro-fessional Paper 98-1), Mr. Wells' ' paper mny provo suggestive to chemists chem-ists who are studying methods of extraction ex-traction of potash from igneous rock, j A copy of tho report ma'' bo obtained ob-tained freo on nppllcntlon to tho Director Di-rector of tho United Stolen Geological Geologi-cal Survey, Washington, D. C. |