(Facility) Amarillo Zinc Smelter

Plant in Potter county in Texas, United States with commodity Zinc
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Land status
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10154342
MAS/MILS ID 0483750004
Record type Site
Current site name (Facility) Amarillo Zinc Smelter

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Plant
Geographic coordinates: -101.86984, 33.22513 (WGS84)
Elevation 1128
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Potter(county)

Texas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tahoka(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Slaton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lubbock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Double Mountain Fork Brazos(hydrologic unit)

Brazos Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Brazos Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Texas-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Texas Potter

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Plant (1) Ogallala Formation

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Plant type Smelter

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    E&MJ DIRECTORY OWN/OP: ASARCO

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 30-OCT-1997 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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