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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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10205996
MAS/MILS ID 560370241
Record type Site
Current site name State Highway Department ledge rock quarry
Alternate or previous names State Highway Department Gravel Pit

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -109.16499, 41.65757 (WGS84)
Elevation 2118
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position Coordinates are for large disturbed area in NW4 sec. 5. Uncertain if this is the intended location cited in the reference.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweetwater(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Reliance(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rock Springs(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 19N 104W 5? Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • A large disturbed surface area in NW4 of sec. 5 may be this site. If so, it is actively producing as of recently (2011). If the location is not correct, then it no longer produces.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • CRUSHED ROCK

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -109.16499, 41.65757
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • At 1:500,000 this plots in map unit Kr, Rock Springs Formation (sandstone, mudstone, coal) of the Mesaverde Group.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Root and others, 1973, GSW CR-2.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2009-03-17 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

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

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