State Highway Dept

Producer in Sweetwater county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Silica
Sections on this page
  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 10133269
MAS/MILS ID 0560370223
Record type Site
Current site name State Highway Dept

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Pit
Geographic coordinates: -109.67809, 41.65817 (WGS84)
Elevation 1874
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position Coordinates are for deepest part of old operation. A brand new operation (visible on ARC GIS data library, but not on Microsoft Bing images) is 500 m to the SE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweetwater(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Stevens Flat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rock Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rock Springs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Green-Slate(hydrologic unit)

Upper Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Divide-Upper Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

USBR(Federal land areas administered by USBR)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Sweetwater

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 19N 109W 2 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silica Primary

Nearby scientific data

Pit (1) -109.67809, 41.65817

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROOT ET AL 1973,WYO GEOL SURV CR-2

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 22-NOV-11 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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