Deposit: 2 deposits: one is part of a dacite flow with considerable contamination. The perlite is quite glassy, greenish black, covering an area 1320 ft by 600 ft by 50 ft thick. The second is a blackish grey granular flow 2640 ft long by 1320 ft wide by 100 ft thick, with little contamination. Both are flat-lying. Absence of heavy overburden.

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ⓘ Perlite

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References

Cochran, K.L., (7951), Union Pacific Railroad Co. Perlite Resources, Report, P. 17-18.

NBMG BULL 73, (1970), P. 122-123, PL. I

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