Bar X Road Pit

Past Producer in Sweetwater county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Sand and Gravel, Construction
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10230582
MAS/MILS ID 560370265
Record type Site
Current site name Bar X Road Pit
Alternate or previous names State Highway Dept

Comments on the site identification

  • It is possible that the State Highway Department Pit is not the same as Bar X Road Pit. The only other pit in this section is small and is about 500 m to the NNW.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -108.52045, 41.99709 (WGS84)
Elevation 2042
Location accuracy 25(meters)
Relative position Sit is NOT on CR-2. Site visible on satellite imagery, but not shown on topo.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweetwater(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Black Rock Flat East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Red Desert Basin(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rock Springs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Great Divide Closed Basin(hydrologic unit)

Great Divide Closed Basin(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 23N 98W 5 SW of NE Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • If this is the deposit in T23N, R98W on CR-2, it is mislocated about 6 km too far north. ABW suspects that this is NOT the deposit shown on CR-2 and therefore moved it 775 m WNW to scraped area visible on satellite imagery. CR-2 remains a reference, but it is not the source of this record.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) Wasatch Formation - Main Body

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 Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Wise, Jim
    Year 2013
    First year 2004

Comments on the production information

  • No current operation visible on 2011 satellite imagery. Changed status from producer to past producer. Sit is not currently active.

Comments on development

  • DEQ Limited Mine Operation Permit ET1276

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROOT ET AL 1973 WYO GEOL SURV CR-2

  • Deposit

    Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, 2013, Land Quality Division Permitted Mines Database.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2011-11-23 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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