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#4 Malone Pit

Producer in Shelby county in Tennessee, United States with commodity Sand and Gravel, Construction
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10025655
MRDS ID K001566
Record type Site
Current site name #4 Malone Pit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -89.91064, 35.00344 (WGS84)
Elevation 113
Relative position ON SOUTH SIDE OF HOLMES RD. BETWEEN MALONE AND PLEASANT HILL ROADS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shelby(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Southeast Memphis(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Memphis East(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Blytheville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Horn Lake-Nonconnah(hydrologic unit)

Hatchie-Obion(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Mississippi-Hatchie(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Mississippi(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Shelby

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sand and Gravel Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Alluvium
    Rock unit name Fluvial Deposits
    Rock description Fluvial Deposits
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -89.91064, 35.00344
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 7.62M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Fischer Concrete Co., Inc.
    Home office P. O. Box 37, Memphis, Tn. 38101
  • Type Owner
    Owner James Malone, 22 S. Second St. Guaranty Life Ins. Co., Memphis, Tn. 38103, Virginia K. Malone, 3

Comments on the production information

  • 1972 PRODUCTION - 100,000 TO 300,000 TONS (INCLUDES GLASCOW PIT); TRANSPORTATION - TRUCK; BENEFICIATION - WASHING AND SCREENING

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINING AND MINERAL PLANT INVENTORY, 1972, TVA, TDG, USBM, MANUSCRIPT

  • Deposit

    1972 COMPILE TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY, INVENTORY

  • Production

    TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY, 1972, MINE INVENTORY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1973 Fagan, James M. U.S. Geological Survey

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