Mount Pleasant

Producer in Maury county in Tennessee, United States with commodity Phosphorus-Phosphates
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. Mining district
  9. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10107341
MRDS ID W022835
Record type Site
Current site name Mount Pleasant

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -87.2225, 35.53871 (WGS84)
Elevation 224

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maury(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Pleasant(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hohenwald(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Columbia(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Duck(hydrologic unit)

Lower Tennessee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Maury

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION OF PIT 2 SHOWN ABOVE. PIT 1 IS LOCATED AT 35-31-34N, 087-11-05W. USBM FILE NO. 0471190034.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Phosphorus-Phosphates Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -87.2225, 35.53871

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Discovery year 1893

Mining district

District name Columbia-Mt Pleasant District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Hill And Knox Mining Co.

Comments on development

  • PLANT CAPACITY IS 550,000 TONNES PER YEAR.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1973 Sutphin, David M. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1981 Sutphin, David M. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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