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Webb Sand Company Pit

Producer in Putnam 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 10106838
MRDS ID K001533
Record type Site
Current site name Webb Sand Company Pit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -85.31911, 36.13287 (WGS84)
Elevation 549
Relative position LOCATED ON ROUTE 70, 3.1 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONTEREY SCHOOL IN PINHOOK COMMUNITY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Putnam(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Monterey(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Cookeville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Corbin(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Caney(hydrologic unit)

Upper Cumberland(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cumberland(hydrologic subregion)

Ohio(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Putnam

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Conglomerate Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate
    Rock unit name Sewanee Conglomerate
    Rock description Sewanee Conglomerate
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -85.31911, 36.13287
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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
Year of first production 1970

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Webb Sand Co.
    Home office Cookeville Road, Monterey, Tn.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Curtis Penny Nichols And Herschel Nichols
    Home office Route 1, Monterey, Tn.

Comments on the production information

  • 1972 PRODUCTION - LESS THAN 100,000 TONS; TRANSPORTATION - TRUCK; BENEFICIATION - SCREENING AND WASHING

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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