John Hay, Jr., Well No. 1

Prospect in Sweetwater county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Sodium, Sodium Carbonate
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10206528
MAS/MILS ID 560370164
Record type Site
Current site name John Hay, Jr., Well No. 1
Included sites Green River Trona District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.80018, 41.57157 (WGS84)
Elevation 1951
Location accuracy 10(meters)
Relative position 1,920 ft. from north line and 2,120 ft. from the west line.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweetwater(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Little America(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rock Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rock Springs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Blacks Fork(hydrologic unit)

Upper Green(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 018N 110W 2 SE4 of NW4 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sodium Primary
Sodium Carbonate Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Trona Ore
Shortite Trace
Northupite Trace

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.80018, 41.57157

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • TRONA IN WILKINS PEAK MEMBER OF GREEN RIVER FORMATION

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Well
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1938

Mining district

District name Green River Trona District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit This is the Discovery well for all trona in the Green River Basin.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-23 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2009-12-01 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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