(Facility) Hillsboro Zinc Smelter

Plant in Montgomery county in Illinois, 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. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10193661
MAS/MILS ID 0171359001
Record type Site
Current site name (Facility) Hillsboro Zinc Smelter

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -89.48508, 39.13284 (WGS84)
Elevation 192

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Montgomery(county)

Illinois(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hillsboro(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Litchfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Decatur(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Shoal(hydrologic unit)

Kaskaskia(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Mississippi-Kaskaskia-Meramec(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Mississippi(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Illinois Montgomery

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -89.48508, 39.13284

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 Unknown

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    1979 E/MJ INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF MINING

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.