Union Carbide/ Oak Ridge, Tn.

Plant in Anderson county in Tennessee, United States with commodity Thorium
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 10256520
MAS/MILS ID 0470019902
Record type Site
Current site name Union Carbide/ Oak Ridge, Tn.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Plant
Geographic coordinates: -84.26661, 36.01179 (WGS84)
Elevation 262
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Anderson(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Windrock(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Oak Ridge(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Corbin(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Clinch(hydrologic unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Anderson

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Thorium Primary

Nearby scientific data

Plant (1) -84.26661, 36.01179

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Plant type Smelter
Plant subcategory Smelter-Pyrometallurgy

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Union Carbide Corp., Nuclear Division
    Year 1980

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    POR IS OAK RIDGE TN

  • Deposit

    US BUR MINES 1977 MINERALS YEARBOOK--THORIUM CHAPTER

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-83 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.