(Facility) Calvert City Smelter

Plant in Marshall county in Kentucky, United States with commodities Chromium, Manganese
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 10291222
MAS/MILS ID 0211579902
Record type Site
Current site name (Facility) Calvert City Smelter
Alternate or previous names Airco Alloys/ Calvert City, Ky.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Town
Geographic coordinates: -88.34444, 37.02008 (WGS84)
Elevation 128
Location accuracy 5000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Marshall(county)

Kentucky(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Calvert City(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Paducah(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Paducah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Tennessee(hydrologic unit)

Lower Tennessee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Kentucky Marshall

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Town (1) -88.34444, 37.02008

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Plant type Smelter
Milling method Pyrometallurgy Unspecified

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Skw Alloys, Inc.
    Year 1991

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MANGANESE FERROALLOYS

  • Deposit

    REF:76 KY.DIR.OF MFG.,ADDRESS CALVERT CITY,KY.,EMP.721.

  • Deposit

    COMMENT:PRODUCER OF FERROALLOYS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 09-AUG-1993 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.