From Toothpaste to Beer Bottles to Industrial Batteries, the World Relies on Wyoming’s ‘White Gold’
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From toothpaste to beer bottles to industrial batteries, the world relies on Wyoming’s ‘white gold’
GREEN RIVER — After a four-minute elevator descent into the bowels of southwest Wyoming, dropping deep enough to bury the Empire State Building, a Tata Chemicals trona miner drove two Wyoming journalists in a truck 8.5 miles through catacombs, crossing…
From toothpaste to beer bottles to industrial batteries, the world relies on Wyoming's 'white gold'
GREEN RIVER—After a four-minute elevator descent into the bowels of southwest Wyoming, dropping deep enough to bury the Empire State Building, a Tata Chemicals trona miner drove two Wyoming journalists in a truck 8.5 miles through catacombs, crossing under unaware motorists on Interstate 80 above, to where a crew was using an electric boring machine to chew into a wall of trona. The visitors — briefed on safety protocols and equipped with underg…
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