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Unknown Quarries

Past Producer in Carbon county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Stone, Sandstone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10132496
MAS/MILS ID 560070430
Record type Site
Current site name Unknown Quarries
Alternate or previous names Unknown

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Geographic coordinates: Elevation UTM Precision Relative position Point location
Ore Body -107.2078, 41.7368 (WGS84) 2012 Quarries shown on topo, but all have been abandoned as of 2011 satellite imagery.
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Pit -107.2047, 41.7348 (WGS84) 10 Quarry in C of W2 Sec. 4.
-107.208, 41.739 (WGS84) 10 southern of rhe cluster of 3 quarries.
-107.2085, 41.7396 (WGS84) 10 middle of cluster of 3 quarries.
-107.2089, 41.7404 (WGS84) 10 northern of 3 quarries

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carbon(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Smith Draw West(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rawlins(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rawlins(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper North Platte(hydrologic unit)

North Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

North Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Carbon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 020N 087W 4 W2 of NW4 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED S OF RAWLINS F.MILES FROM UPRR
  • The above unedited location comment was moved by A.B. Wilson from references to comments. it was also enough of a clue to discover that the record should say 4 mi. south of the Railroad, as described on p. 179.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone Primary
Sandstone, Dimension Primary
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Comments on development

  • Quarries are shown on topo, but are barely visible on 2011 satellite imagery. Thus they have been long abandoned (as of 2011).
  • Clearly abandoned for many years as of 2011 based on satellite imagery. Bull. 50 says this was the largest sandstone quarry in Wyoming. The sandstone was the "Rawlins sandstone" and was quarried form the basal Mesaverde Formation. It was used to build the state penitentiary at Rawlins and the Federal bulding at Ogden, Utah, as well as trim Old Main, University of Wyoming at Laramie. (Bull. 50, p. 179).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Osterwald and others, 1966, MIN RES WYO: W G S BULL 50, P. 179.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2012-01-24 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey

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

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