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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. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10133529
MAS/MILS ID 560370240
Record type Site
Current site name State Highway Department ledge rock quarry
Alternate or previous names State Highway Department Gravel Pit

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -108.8672, 41.6833 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012
Location accuracy 5000(meters)
Relative position Vague location. No quarry shown on topo, nor distinctly visible on satellite imagery.

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Sweetwater

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 20N 102W Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • There is what might be a small quarry about 2,500 m to the east, immediately south of the split in the interstate in NW4 of NE4 Sec. 30 in T20N, R101W. But CR-2 is clear that this quarry is next township west in 102W.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • COMMODITY CRUSHED ROCK

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -108.8672, 41.6833
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • IF location is correct, this is in the Rock Springs Formation of the Mesaverde Group. (map unit Kr).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • No visible quarry operation south of the Interstate and esat of Thayne Jct. If this was producing when CR-2 was researched, it does not appear to be active now.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROOT ET AL WYO GEOL SURV CR-2

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Shown as a "State Highway Department Ledge Rock Quarry" on CR-2. No quarry shown in this vicinity on topo.

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

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