Finally, China Lake and the Trona chemical plants are essential, whereas the alfalfa and pistachios produced at local farms can be grown in many other places.

“Anywhere else is not Trona,” Sandy Sprouse said. “It’s unique in every sense of the word.”The tiny unincorporated community on Death Valley’s southwestern… ...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A trona company has settled a lawsuit with a firm that allegedly improperly designed, engineered and built a pilot plant for a new method of producing soda ash.

If processed into natural gas, the estimated rate of 950kg/h of methane emissions from trona mines in Wyoming could supply electricity for a year to 1 million homes.

The last union vote in the state's trona industry occured in November 2003 when a majority of about 150 hourly workers at the nearby Church and Dwight Corp. soda ash plant rejected representation ...

It was a snapshot of the global character of his business: Keighley, an Englishman working for a company that was founded in India, drinking beer from a bottle made in Japan using trona shipped ...