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State Highway Department Gravel Pit

Past Producer in Sweetwater county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Sand and Gravel, Construction
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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 10133296
MAS/MILS ID 560370264
Record type Site
Current site name State Highway Department Gravel Pit

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Pit
Geographic coordinates: -108.4828, 41.95 (WGS84)
Elevation 2042
Location accuracy 50(meters)
Relative position Moved coordinates 3.5 km SW to Gravel Pit on topo in NE4 of SW4 sec. 33. There is no gravel pit visible on imagery at the former location. Site extends approx. 1500 m to the south into the center of Sec. 4 as 3 separate pits on topo.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweetwater(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Red Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

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

Rock Springs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Great Divide Closed Basin(hydrologic unit)

Great Divide Closed Basin(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Divide-Upper Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management WY)

Bureau of Land Management WY BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Sweetwater

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 23N 98W NE4 of SW4 Wyoming
6th Principal 22N 098W 4 C N2 Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • ABW moved point approx. 3.5 km south to gravel pit shown on topo. Formerly coordinates were 41.94995, -108.4835, probably estimated from 1:500,000-scale CR-2.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Nearby scientific data

Pit (1) Playa lake and other lacustrine deposits
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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 Federal

Comments on the production information

  • Pits appear on satellite images to have been abandoned for a long time.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • 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 Corrected location. Moved 3.5 km SW to Gravel pit shown on topo.

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

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