Millaken Brick Co--Pitcairn, Pa.

Past Producer in Allegheny county in Pennsylvania, United States with commodity Clay
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Land status
  9. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10128870
MAS/MILS ID 0420039003
Record type Site
Current site name Millaken Brick Co--Pitcairn, Pa.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -79.78476, 40.40172 (WGS84)
Elevation 274

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Allegheny(county)

Pennsylvania(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Braddock(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pittsburgh East(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Pittsburgh(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Monongahela(hydrologic unit)

Monongahela(hydrologic accounting unit)

Monongahela(hydrologic subregion)

Ohio(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Pennsylvania Allegheny

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Clay Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -79.78476, 40.40172

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner U.S. Steel Corp.
    ID 3600654

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MESA INSP.

  • Deposit

    75 PA IND DIR ADDRESS BROADWAY AVE PITCHCAIRN PA.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 15-NOV-1983 Eastern Field Operations Center (EFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Current status (per MSHA)

StatusAbandoned since 05/21/1982
MSHA mine ID3600654
Mine name (MSHA)Milliken Brick Co Pitcairn Plant
Current operatorMilliken Brick Company Inc
Mine typeFacility (Metal / non-metal)

MSHA cross-reference per the original MRDS record. Mine status and operator reflect MSHA's last published Mines export (February 2025); MSHA's public bulk feed has been unavailable since, so this may be out of date. See the Mine Data Retrieval System for current status.

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Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.