AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF A WHITE NAHCOLITE INSTALLATION IN COLORADO, OPTION 1, CIRCA 1971

Option I is concerned only with material from a "white nahcolite bed" in the Piceance Creek basin, Colorado, containing a high concentration of sodium bicarbonate at a nominal depth of 1,900 feet. A nahcolite mine and processing plant is designed to mine 8,000 tons of nahcolite ore per calendar day yielding 4,071 tons per calendar day of soda ash product. This will require a total capital investment of $80,213,200 based on 1971 conditions. The soda ash will yield an annual income of $52,749,400. Annual operating expenses including labor, materials, maintenance, taxes, insurance, payroll overhead and depreciation will be $18,821,900 in 1971 dollars. The discounted cash flow rate of return is equal to 30.74 percent based on a weighted average depreciation life of 12.88 years.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This article was prepared by the Staff of the Bureau of Mines. Notification appeared in the Bureau of Mines--New Publication, Monthly List 690.
• Corporate Authors:

  Bureau of Mines

  College Park Research Center
  College Park, MD  United States  20742
• Publication Date: 1972-6

Media Info

• Pagination: 69 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commodities
• Old TRIS Terms: Nahcolite traffic
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00040974
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Bureau of Mines
• Report/Paper Numbers: BuMines OFR 31-72
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 2 1974 12:00AM