Leefe Mill (Facility)

Past Producer in Lincoln county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Phosphorus-Phosphates
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 10254733
MAS/MILS ID 560230012
Record type Site
Current site name Leefe Mill (Facility)

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Plant
Geographic coordinates: -111.02472, 41.81194 (WGS84)
Elevation 1920
Location accuracy 10(meters)
Relative position Remaining concrete pad as of Aug, 2010 in the Twin Creek valley. Cleanup/reclamation/restoration left no remants of any buildings in this part of the mine site. Even the old Union Pacifc Railway line shown on the 1969 (revised 1986) topo is gone.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Leefe(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Logan(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ogden(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Bear(hydrologic unit)

Upper Bear(hydrologic accounting unit)

Bear(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 021 N 120 W 10 NESE Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Phosphorus-Phosphates Primary

Nearby scientific data

Plant (1) -111.02472, 41.81194

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Stauffer Chemical Co.
    ID 4800160
    Year 1978

Comments on development

  • As of Aug, 2010, all that remains of the mill site is a cracked up concrete pad in the Twin Creek valley. No buildings remain. There are remains of an electrical transformer to the south. On the hilltop, where a water tank is shown on the topo, only a little bit of a concrete ring can be seen in the ground. Reclaimation/restoration appears to be complete. The site has been abandoned for many years, perhaps decades.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    REVISED BY MILS 9-79

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2010-07-23 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey visited 6-aug-2010.

Beyond USGS

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

Current status (per MSHA)

StatusAbandoned since 12/31/1986
MSHA mine ID4800160
Mine name (MSHA)Leefe Operations
Current operatorStauffer Chemical Company
Current controller (parent)Unilever United States Inc
Mine typeFacility (Metal / non-metal)

MSHA cross-reference per the original MRDS record. Mine status and operator reflect MSHA's last published Mines export (February 2025); MSHA's public bulk feed has been unavailable since, so this may be out of date. See the Mine Data Retrieval System for current status.

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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.