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Sulfur Creek Mine

Past Producer in Live Oak county in Texas, United States with commodities Uranium, Molybdenum, Rhenium, Selenium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008453
MRDS ID D000626
Record type Site
Current site name Sulfur Creek Mine
Alternate or previous names Felder, Mclean, Martin
Related records 10227290

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -98.08364, 28.49056 (WGS84)
Elevation 52
Relative position 2.6 MILES N30E OF OAKVILLE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Live Oak(county)

Texas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Oakville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

George West(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Crystal City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Nueces(hydrologic unit)

Nueces(hydrologic accounting unit)

Nueces-Southwestern Texas Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Texas-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Texas Live Oak

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Molybdenum Secondary
Rhenium Tertiary
Selenium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Coffinite Ore
Uraninite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Analytical data

Result RE = 0.05%

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 204
USGS model code 30c
Deposit model name Sandstone U

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Oakville
    Rock description Oakville
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -98.08364, 28.49056
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shallow Ore Bodies And Normal Fault

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discoverer Susquehanna-Western (1967-1971)
Production years 1967-1971; 1977-?

Mining district

District name Ray Point

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner J. C. Felder, Mcclean

Comments on the production information

  • FELDER PROPERTY ONLY

Comments on the workings information

  • DISTURBED AREA ON 1984 TOPOGRAPHIC MAP 1.8 MILES LONG AND 0.6 MILES WIDE CONTAINS SEVERAL PITS )FROM N TO S): MARTIN, FELDER, MCLEAN NO. 1, NO. 2, NO. 3.

Comments on development

  • FIRST DISCOVERY IN RAY POINT DISTRICT. APPEARED AS A SURFACE RADIOACTIVITY ANOMALY ALONG OAKVILLE FAULT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KING, R.U., (UNPUB. DATA)

  • Deposit

    TX BEG RI 113

  • Deposit

    TX BEG GB 12

  • Production

    TX BEG 12, P. 55.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1974 King, Robert U. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-1993 Long, Keith R. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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