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State Highway Department ledge rock quarry

Past Producer in Sweetwater county in Wyoming, United States with commodity 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 10133233
MAS/MILS ID 560370235
Record type Site
Current site name State Highway Department ledge rock quarry
Alternate or previous names State Highway Dept, Unknown Gravel Pit

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -108.75732, 41.66747 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position Gravel pits on topo cover E2 of Sec. 35.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweetwater(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Point of Rocks(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Red Desert Basin(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rock Springs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Bitter(hydrologic unit)

Upper Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Divide-Upper Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Federal(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Sweetwater

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 20N 101W 35 E2 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Gravel pits shown on topo, but CR-2 calls this a "State Highway Department Ledge Rock Quarry" which implies that it is crushed stone/aggregate.

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -108.75732, 41.66747
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Underlying geology mapped as Almond Formation of the Mesaverde Group (map unit Kal).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Comments on development

  • Many roads in this area and scraped areas, but on 2011 satellite imagery nothing appears to be fresh development. Appears to be abandoned and partially overgrown.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Location

    USGS, 1976, Point of Rocks 1:24,000 topo map.

  • Deposit

    ROOT ET AL 1973 WYO GEOL SURV CR-2

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2011-11-23 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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