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Unknown (Commercial gravel pit or aggregate operation)

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 10157382
MAS/MILS ID 560370303
Record type Site
Current site name Unknown (Commercial gravel pit or aggregate operation)

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Pit
Geographic coordinates: -108.91601, 41.79869 (WGS84)
Elevation 2347
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position Moved approx. 900 m. NW to area marked as open pit mine on topo and visible on satellite imagery based on location shown on CR-2.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweetwater(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

South Superior(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 021N 102W 13 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Nearby scientific data

Pit (1) -108.91601, 41.79869
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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 Private

Comments on development

  • Site is visible on 2011 satellite imagery, however there is no sign of mining activity. The roads are mostly still visible, but the site is overgrown. Appears to have been idle for at least a decade or more.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROOT, ET AL., 1973, WYO. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CR-2

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Aggregate operation in volcanic rocks, best source of crushable ledge rock (CR-2). Therefore, A.B. Wilson changed this from sand and gravel to crushed stone.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2011-11-21 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey corrected location and commodity based on CR-2.

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

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