U.S. Borax, Owens Lake Expansion Project/Conditional Use Permit #02-13/Reclamation Plan #02-1

U.S. Borax, Owens Lake Expansion Project/Conditional Use Permit #02-13/Reclamation Plan #02-1

U.S. Borax, which currently mines trona ore from the dry bed of Owens Lake in Inyo County, proposes the installation of trona ore processing facilities at the lake. The facility, consisting of a portable, mobile washing equipment located on the lakebed and a calcining and drying unit on the western shore, would enable U.S. Borax's Boron, California, Operations to meet its product (soda ash) requirements without purchasing processed trona ore from the market. Washing the ore would significantly reduce the impurities in the ore. Owens Lake has been mined selectively thus far to minimize these impurities in the ore; in the future, however, the Boron Operations would receive ore of higher impurity.

Inyo

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