Industrial use of water in Wyoming’s Platte River Basin consists of approximately 75 percent groundwater use and 25 percent surface water use. The mining and mine reclamation sector is the largest permitted industrial water consumer in the Above Pathfinder subbasin. The second largest subbasin water consumer, oil exploration, refining, and reclamation is permitted to use less than half the quantity of water that the mining and mine reclamation industry is permitted to use.