American Smelt & Refin/Baltimore Md

Plant in Baltimore City county in Maryland, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Palladium, Platinum, Selenium, Silver, Tellurium
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 10291197
MAS/MILS ID 0245109913
Record type Site
Current site name American Smelt & Refin/Baltimore Md

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Town
Geographic coordinates: -76.60936, 39.29033 (WGS84)
Elevation 6
Location accuracy 5000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baltimore(county)

Maryland(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Baltimore East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Baltimore(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Baltimore(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Gunpowder-Patapsco(hydrologic unit)

Upper Chesapeake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Chesapeake(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Maryland Baltimore City

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Gold Primary
Palladium Critical Tertiary
Platinum Critical Tertiary
Selenium Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Tellurium Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Town (1) -76.60936, 39.29033

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Plant type Manufacturing Plant
Plant subcategory Smelter-Pyrometallurgy

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.)
    Interest 100
    Home office Maryland
    Year 1974

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    REF:73-74 MD MFG DIR,ADDRESS:HIGHLAND & EASTBOURNE AVE,BALTI

  • Deposit

    MD,EMP:968

  • Deposit

    REFINING OF GOLD,SILVER,SELENIUM,TELLURIUM,PLATINUM,& PALLAD

  • Deposit

    REFINING COPPER.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 03-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.

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.