(Facility) Amax Potash Refinery

Plant in Eddy county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Potassium
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. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10295849
MRDS ID D007896
MAS/MILS ID 0350150026
Record type Site
Current site name (Facility) Amax Potash Refinery
Related records 10012330

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Plant
Geographic coordinates: -103.96609, 32.66984 (WGS84)
Elevation 1036
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Eddy(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hackberry Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hobbs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Hobbs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Pecos-Black(hydrologic unit)

Upper Pecos(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Pecos(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Eddy

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Potassium Primary

Nearby scientific data

Plant (1) -103.96609, 32.66984

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Plant
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Plant type Refiner

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OWNER/OP: AMAX CHEMICAL CORP.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

External references