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State Highway Dept

Past Producer in Sweetwater county in Wyoming, 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. 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 10206419
MAS/MILS ID 560370258
Record type Site
Current site name State Highway Dept

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -109.8275, 41.9178 (WGS84)
Elevation 1938
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position CR-2 shows site in Sec. 1, but it is possible that this "pit" is in the southern part of the section immediately north (T23N, R110W, sec. 36). The former is not visible on satellite imagery, the latter is.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweetwater(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Thoman School(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rock Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rock Springs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Green-Slate(hydrologic unit)

Upper Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Divide-Upper Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

USBR(Federal land areas administered by USBR)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Sweetwater

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 022N 110W 1 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -109.8275, 41.9178
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • CR-2 shows this pit between 2 large "major gravel deposits" but there are no such deposits mapped on the state geologic map. This area is mapped as Tertiary Bridger Fm.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Comments on the production information

  • No current operation visible on 2011 satellite imagery. Changed status from producer to past producer.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROOT ET AL WYO GEOL SURV CR-2 1973

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

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