Auburn Mine

Producer in Barron county in Wisconsin, United States with commodity Sand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac Sand

Sections on this page

Identification information
Geographic coordinates
Site location context
Geographic areas
Public Land Survey System information
Commodities
Nearby scientific data
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Ownership information
Bibliographic references
General comments
Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10401240
Record type	Site
Current site name	Auburn Mine

Comments on the site identification

Probably includes mines that used to be called Boese and Glaser.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference	Pit
Geographic coordinates:	-91.6154, 45.1333 (WGS84)
Relative position	Mine in secs. 28, 32, 33, according to map supplied by Superior Silica Sands and confirmed with satellite imagery.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Barron(county)

Wisconsin(state)

United States(country)

USGS map quadrangles

New Auburn(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bloomer(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rice Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Geographic areas

Country	State	County
United States	Wisconsin	Barron

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian	Township	Range	Section	Fraction	State
4th Principal	31N	10W	28, 32, 33		Wisconsin

Comments on the location information

Location shown on map supplied by Superior Silica Sands. Confirmed by satellite imagery in ArcGIS.
Mine is in T31N, R10W, sec. 33, with extensions into sec. 32 and most of the south half of sec. 28.

Commodities

Commodity	Importance
Sand and Gravel, Industrial/Frac Sand	Primary

Nearby scientific data

Pit (1)	-91.6154, 45.1333	ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type	Surface
Development status	Producer
Commodity type	Non-metallic
Significant	Yes

Ownership information

Type Owner-Operator

Owner Superior Silica Sands

Home office Headquarters in Ft. Worth, TX.

Year 2015

Type	Owner-Operator
Owner	Superior Silica Sands
Home office	Headquarters in Ft. Worth, TX.
Year	2015

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General

Wilson, Anna B., 2015, USGS Field notes.

General comments

Subject category	Comment text
General	Anna B. Wilson and Mary Ellen Benson, USGS Central Mineral Resources and Environmental Science Center, visited other sites in Barron County with Sharon Masek, Superior Silica Sands' Manager of Mine Planning and Industrial Relations on July 13, 2015, but did not visit the Auburn Mine.

Reporter information

Type	Date	Name	Affiliation	Comment
Reporter	2015-08-10	Wilson, Anna B.	U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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