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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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10230387
MAS/MILS ID 560370257
Record type Site
Current site name State Highway Department ledge rock quarry
Alternate or previous names State Highway Dept

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Pit
Geographic coordinates: -109.1022, 41.9108 (WGS84)
Elevation 2133
Location accuracy 10(meters)
Relative position Abandoned surface disturbance on satellite imagery near approx. location on 1:500,000-scale CR-2. AND new active pit immediately to the north. Coordinates are for active operation.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweetwater(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

North Table Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rock Springs(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)

Federal lands

Federal(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Sweetwater

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 22N 103W 5 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • COMMODITY CRUSHED ROCK

Nearby scientific data

Pit (1) -109.1022, 41.9108
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • IF correctly located, appears to be located in Map Unit Ke (Cretaceous Ericsson Sandstone of the Mesaverde Group).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Comments on the production information

  • Workings appear abandoned on satellite imagery as of 2011. ABWilson changed development status from Producer to Past Producer.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROOT ET AL 1973 WYO GEOL SURV CR-2

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2011-11-29 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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