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State Highway Department ledge rock quarry

Producer in Sweetwater county in Wyoming, United States with commodity Stone, Crushed/Broken
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10205953
MAS/MILS ID 560370237
Record type Site
Current site name State Highway Department ledge rock quarry
Alternate or previous names State Highway Dept

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -108.91185, 41.72979 (WGS84)
Elevation 2094
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position Moved point to quarry at approx. location shown on CR-2.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweetwater(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Thayer Junction(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Red Desert Basin(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rock Springs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Bitter(hydrologic unit)

Upper Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Divide-Upper Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Federal(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Sweetwater

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 020N 102W 9 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -108.91185, 41.72979
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • At 1:500,000 plots in the Rock Springs Formation of the Mesaverde Group (unit Kr on State Geologic map).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Comments on development

  • Site is either active or has recently been active, based on 2011 satellite imagery. Ground is freshly exposed and road access is clear, not overgrown.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROOT ET AL 1973 WYO GEOL SURV CR-2

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit "State Highway Department Ledge Rock Quarry" on CR-2. A.B. Wilson changed commodity from sand and gravel to crushed stone.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2011-11-21 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey corrected location per CR-2.

Beyond USGS

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

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