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Utah Underground Injection Control (UIC) Program

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Class III Injection Wells

Class III injection wells inject fluids for the extraction of minerals including:

  1. Mining of sulfur by the Frasch process;
  2. In-situ production of uranium or other metals; this category includes only in-situ production from ore bodies that have not been conventionally mined. Solution mining of conventional mines such as stopes leaching is included in Class V.
  3. Solution mining of salts or potash.

This page last updated on: 2 March 2005

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