U S Steel/ Fairfield, Ala.

Plant in Jefferson county in Alabama, United States with commodity Iron
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 10184985
MAS/MILS ID 0010739015
Record type Site
Current site name U S Steel/ Fairfield, Ala.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -86.90279, 33.48625 (WGS84)
Elevation 183

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Jefferson(county)

Alabama(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bessemer(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Birmingham South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Birmingham(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Black Warrior(hydrologic unit)

Black Warrior-Tombigbee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Mobile-Tombigbee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Alabama Jefferson

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -86.90279, 33.48625

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Plant type Refiner
Plant subcategory Electrostatic

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner U.S. Steel Corp.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    REF:75 IND.ALA.DIR.,EMP.OVER 5000,ADDRESS:P.O.BOX 599,FAIRFI

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1983 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.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.