Lowndes County Limestone Mine

Producer in Lowndes county in Mississippi, United States with commodity Cement Rock

Sections on this page

Identification information
Geographic coordinates
Site location context
Geographic areas
Commodities
Materials information
Mineral occurrence model information
Nearby scientific data
Geologic structures
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Links to other databases
Bibliographic references
General comments
Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10306991
Record type	Site
Current site name	Lowndes County Limestone Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates:	-88.61754, 33.40098 (WGS84)
Location accuracy	10000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lowndes(county)

Mississippi(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bent Oak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Starkville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

West Point(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Tombigbee-Lubbub(hydrologic unit)

Black Warrior-Tombigbee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Mobile-Tombigbee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country	State	County
United States	Mississippi	Lowndes

Commodities

Commodity	Importance
Cement Rock	Primary

Materials information

Materials	Type of material
Limestone	Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code	237
USGS model code	32g
Deposit model name	Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1)	Demopolis chalk	ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure	Regional
Structure description	Limestone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status	Producer
Commodity type	Non-metallic
Significant	No

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, Surface Geology Division	MSDEQSGD	MSDEQSGD	M19

Bibliographic references

Deposit

Knox, S.C., Mccarley, K., 1997, Mississippi Department Of Environmental Quality, Office Of Geology, Surface Mining Permits, Open-File Report 65.Knox, S.C., Mccarley, K., 1997, Mississippi Department Of Environmental Quality, Office Of Geology, Surface Mining Permits, Open-File Report 65.

General comments

Subject category	Comment text
Deposit	Holnam, Inc.

Reporter information

Type	Date	Name	Affiliation	Comment
Editor	01-DEC-2002	Woodruff, L.G.	U.S. Geological Survey	Entered County
Reporter	11-DEC-1998	Thompson, David E.	Mississippi Office of Geology

Beyond USGS

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