Mine · Bastrop County, Texas, United States
Standard Pit
Standard Pit is a mine in Bastrop County, Texas, United States, owned by Berkshire Hathaway.
Facts
Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Bastrop County | MSHA Mines Data Set · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Operating (intermittent) | MSHA Mines Data Set · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Commodities | refractory clay (mainly refractory clay) | MSHA Mines Data Set · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Owner | Berkshire Hathaway (controls the operator) | MSHA Mines Data Set · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Acme Brick Company | MSHA Mines Data Set · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Employees | 9 people (annual average, in 2025) | MSHA Mines Data Set · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Mine type | Surface | MSHA Mines Data Set · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 30.3242, -97.2964 | MSHA Mines Data Set · Public domain · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this mine and its owner.Who owns it up to the parent company, its permits, resources and offtake, and an introduction to the owner.
Request researchHow its owner compares
Berkshire Hathaway owns 10 of the 2,675 mines in the United States in our data with a named owner; 30 owners have more. Counts cover the mines in our data that name an owner, holder or operator; an asset with several owners counts for each.
| Owner in United States | Rank | Mines | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc | 1st | 56 | 2.1% |
| Sev.en Global Investments a.s. | 2nd | 50 | 1.9% |
| Rosebud Mining Company | 3rd | 40 | 1.5% |
| Martin Marietta Materials Inc | 4th | 29 | 1.1% |
| Metinvest B V | 4th | 29 | 1.1% |
| Berkshire Hathaway | 31st | 10 | 0.37% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this mine: 15 data centers, 8 power plants (4 operating, 2,547 MW) and 2 AI supercomputers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 8, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandow Lakes Energy Station | Power plant | 1,290 MW | Planned | 15 km |
| Lost Pines 1 Power Project | Power plant | 609 MW | Operating | 20 km |
| Sim Gideon | Power plant | 623 MW | Operating | 20 km |
| Thin-nology | Data center | — | — | 30 km |
| Cortex supercomputer | Data center | — | — | 33 km |
| Element Critical | Data center | — | — | 38 km |
| TACC Frontera | AI supercomputer | 32 H100e | Operating | 42 km |
| TACC Lonestar6 | AI supercomputer | 79 H100e | Operating | 42 km |
Owner, operator and place
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Data on this page
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
- Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, CC BY 4.0.
- MSHA Mines Data Set. MSHA Mines Data Set, Public domain.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.