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State Highway Department ledge rock quarry

Past 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 10254699
MAS/MILS ID 560370245
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: -109.2186, 41.7153 (WGS84)
Elevation 1975
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position Approx. location from 1:500,000-scale CR-2. No obvious ground disturbance in this area.

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

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management WY)

Bureau of Land Management WY BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Sweetwater

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 20N 105W 13 ? Wyoming

Comments on the location information

  • Location approximated from 1:500,000 CR-2. No quarry on topo or apparent on satellite imagery.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • COMMODITY CRUSHED ROCK

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -109.2186, 41.7153
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Location is suspect. Geology here is mapped (at 1:500,000) as Tfu (Tertiary Fort Union Formation). This unit is not known as a source of crushed stone.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • No obvious activity visible on satellite imagery. AB Wilson changed Development Status from Producer to Past Producer.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROOT ET AL 1973 WYO GEOL SURV CR-2

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1983-11-18 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 2011-11-29 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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