(Facility) Amax Zirconium Refinery

Plant in Niagara county in New York, United States with commodities Hafnium, Zirconium
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 10272840
MAS/MILS ID 0360639910
Record type Site
Current site name (Facility) Amax Zirconium Refinery

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -78.498, 43.02169 (WGS84)
Elevation 213

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Erie(county)

New York(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Akron(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lockport(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Toronto(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Eastern Lake Erie(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lake Erie(hydrologic subregion)

Great Lakes(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New York Niagara

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Hafnium Critical Secondary
Zirconium Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -78.498, 43.02169

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Plant type Refiner

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Amax Specialty Metals Corp.
    Year 1978

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    1978 E/M J DIRECTORY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 15-NOV-1983 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.