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Downtown Green River, looking east at Flaming Gorge Way. Location of Green River in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. / 41.52861°N 109.46611°W / 41.52861; -109.46611. Green River is a city in and the county seat of Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States, in the southwestern part of the state. [6] The population was 11,825 at the 2020 census.
The Green River, located in the western United States, is the chief tributary of the Colorado River. The watershed of the river, known as the Green River Basin, covers parts of the U.S. states of Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. The Green River is 730 miles (1,170 km) long, beginning in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming and flowing through ...
Heliobatis radians (stingray), Green River Formation, Fossil Butte National Monument. The Green River Formation is an Eocene geologic formation that records the sedimentation in a group of intermountain lakes in three basins along the present-day Green River in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. The sediments are deposited in very fine layers, a dark ...
Ciner Wyoming is located at Green River in Sweetwater County of Wyoming, United States. The company extracts trona using room and pillar mining method. After trona ore is conveyed to the surface, it is processed into dense soda ash ( sodium carbonate , Na 2 CO 3 ). [3]
The Greater Green River Basin (GGRB) is a 21,000 square mile basin located in Southwestern Wyoming. The Basin was formed during the Cretaceous period sourced by underlying Permian and Cretaceous deposits. The GGRB is host to many anticlines created during the Laramide Orogeny trapping many of its hydrocarbon resources.
By 2006, the only active uranium mine in Wyoming was the Smith Ranch-Highland in-situ leaching operation in the Powder River Basin, owned by Power Resources, Inc., a subsidiary of Cameco. The mine produced 907 tonnes of yellowcake (uranium oxide concentrate, U 3 O 8) in 2006, making it the leading uranium producer in the United States.
9,980 cu ft/s (283 m 3 /s) Basin features. Tributaries. • left. Little West Fork Blacks Fork, Hams Fork. • right. Smiths Fork. Blacks Fork (also referred to as Blacks Fork of the Green River) is a 175-mile-long (282 km) [4] tributary of the Green River in Utah and Wyoming in the United States. [1]
The North Antelope Rochelle Mine is the largest coal mine in the world. Located in Campbell County, Wyoming, about 65 miles (105 km) south of Gillette, it produced 85.3 million tons of coal in 2019. Peabody Energy opened the North Antelope Mine in the heart of Wyoming's Powder River Basin in 1983. The Rochelle mine was opened in 1984.