From toothpaste to beer bottles to batteries, the world relies on Wyoming’s ‘white gold’

But shifting market and political forces challenge state’s otherwise reliable and expanding trona mining industry.

Posted 5/21/25

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 …

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From toothpaste to beer bottles to batteries, the world relies on Wyoming’s ‘white gold’

But shifting market and political forces challenge state’s otherwise reliable and expanding trona mining industry.

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From toothpaste to beer bottles to batteries, the world relies on Wyoming’s ‘white gold’

But shifting market and political forces challenge state’s otherwise reliable and expanding trona mining industry.

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