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Test drilling for potash resources: Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Site, Eddy County, New Mexico

January 1, 1978

Twenty-one borings to augment existing information on potash resources at the proposed site for a waste isolation pilot plant in eastern Eddy County, N. Mex., were drilled and logged in an 11-week period, mid-August to November 1976. The basic data developed from the borings are tabulated in the present report. The tabulation includes lithologic and geophysical logs of all the borings, as well as the results of chemical analyses, X-ray determinations, and calculations to establish a modal mineralogical composition of core samples from potash ore zones and mineralized salt beds.

Publication Year 1978
Title Test drilling for potash resources: Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Site, Eddy County, New Mexico
DOI 10.3133/ofr78592
Authors C.L. Jones
Publication Type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Series Title Open-File Report
Series Number 78-592
Index ID ofr78592
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse