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Mount Barry

Occurrence in Wichita county in Texas, United States with commodity Copper
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10022139
MRDS ID DE01970
Record type Site
Current site name Mount Barry
Alternate or previous names Bare Butte On USGS Maps

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -98.64285, 33.8854 (WGS84)
Elevation 302
Relative position GO 6.8 MI SW OF U.S. HWY. 287 IN WICHITA FALLS, ON U.S. HWY. 82, 277, TO ROADSIDE PARK. TURN N. 0.8 MI AND FOLLOW ROAD TO NW AND N. TO S. SIDE OF BARE BUTTE, ABOUT 1 MILE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Wichita(county)

Texas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Iowa Park(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wichita Falls(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wichita Falls(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Wichita(hydrologic unit)

Red-Lake Texoma(hydrologic accounting unit)

Red-Washita(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Texas Wichita

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
27 SW Texas

Comments on the location information

  • ELEVATION GIVEN ABOVE IS AT BASE OF BUTTE; ELEVATION IS 1070 FT AT TOP OF BUTTE. SECTION IS IN PALO PINTO COUNTY SCHOOL LAND SURVEY. THE "SECTION" IS ACTUALLY A QUARTER SECTION, OR 160 ACRES. CUMMINS (1891, P. 403) MEASURED HIS SECTION 32 ABOUT 12 MILES SW OF WICHITA FALLS. CUMMINS (1908) SAID THAT MT. BARRY WAS 10 MI SW OF WICHITA FALLS. CUMMINS (1891, PL. 18) SHOWS HIS COPPER OCCURRENCES TO BE AT HIS MT. BARRY AND ABOUT A MILE E. OF MT. BARRY, SO MEASURED SEC. 32 WOULD BE SEVERAL MILES SW OF MT. BARRY. I WAS UNABLE TO FIND A MEASURED SECTION THAT DESCRIBES THESE COPPER OCCURRENCES. THEY WOULD BE IN THE PETROLIA FORMATION. FURMAN (1881, P. 18-19) MENTIONS THE OCCURRENCES IN WICHITA COUNTY.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Sandstone Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Rock unit name Petrolia Formation
    Rock description Petrolia Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Petrolia Formation
    Rock description Petrolia Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -98.64285, 33.8854
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Gentle Dip To Nnw Of 30 Ft/Mi Or Less, Off Bend Arch

Ore body information

  • Name UNNAMED
    General form LENTICULAR
    Strike ENE
    Dip NNW OF 30 FT/MI OR LESS

Comments on the ore body information

  • Orebody is in an outcrop

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Reducing Environment, Stratigraphic

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOLOGY BY PLUMMER, FUQUA, AND OTHERS (1929), ROMER (1974), HENTZ AND BROWN (1987), AND HENTZ (1988).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1873
Discoverer Roessler, A.R.; Col. J.B. Barry? (1864)

Mining district

District name Wichita Falls

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • OUTCROPS. THE COPPER COULD BE WIDESPREAD.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Name of workings OUTCROPS
    Area 4.047HA

Comments on development

  • ROESSLER (1874, MAP) SHOWS THIS LOCALITY, WITH NAME MT. BARRY, WITH COPPER OCCURRENCE. CUMMINS (1891, P. 449) MENTIONED THAT COL. J.B. BARRY SENT A SCOUTING PARTY INTO ARCHER AND WICHITA COUNTIES TO LOCATE COPPER IN 1864. THE COPPER IN ARCHER COUNTY WAS MINED, SMELTED, AND MADE INTO PERCUSSION CAPS FOR BULLETS FOR THE CONFEDERATE ARMY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROESSLER, A.R., 1874, LATEST MAP OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: NEW YORK, E. WELLKE AND BROTHER (1 IN. = 40 MI).

  • Deposit

    ROESSLER, A.R., 1869, COPPER ORES IN TEXAS: VERHANDLUNGEN DER KAISERL.-KONIGL. GEOLOG. REICHSANSTALT, WIEN, JAHRGANG 1869, NO. 1, P. 2. QUOTED, SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS, OCTOBER 16, 1868.

  • Deposit

    CUMMINS, W.F., 1891, TEXAS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 2ND ANNUAL REPORT, P. 359-552 (P. 403, 449, 451, PL. 18).

  • Deposit

    PLUMMER, F.B., AND FUQUA, H.B., AND OTHERS, COMPILERS, 1929, GEOLOGIC MAP OF WICHITA COUNTY, TEXAS: TEXAS BUREAU OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, SCALE 1:48,000.

  • Deposit

    ROMER, A.S., 1974, BREVIORA, HARVARD MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY, NO. 427, 31 P., MAP.

  • Deposit

    HENTZ, T.F., AND BROWN, L.F., JR., COMPILERS, 1987, IN BARNES, V.E., GEOLOGIC ATLAS OF TEXAS - WICHITA FALLS-LAWTON SHEET: TEXAS BUREAU OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, SCALE 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    HENTZ, T.F., 1988, TEXAS BUREAU OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 170, 55 P. (PETROLIA FORMATION).

  • Deposit

    FURMAN, J.H., 1881, NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, TRANSACTIONS, V. 1, P. 15-20, MAP (P. 18-19).

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit OUTCROPS
Deposit CUMMINS (1891, P. 403, MEAS. SEC. 32, PL. 18) IS REFERENCE. CUMMINS (1908, P. 740) GIVES LOCATION OF MOUNT BARRY. THE MEASURED SECTION DOES NOT CONTAIN A REFERENCE TO COPPER, BUT THE TWO COPPER LOCATIONS ON PL. 18, S. AND SW OF THE MOUTH OF BUFFALO CREEK, ARE AT OR NEAR BARE BUTTE AND A MILE E. OF BARE BUTTE. ROESSLER (1874, MAP) SHOWS THE COPPER PROSPECT AND USES NAME MT. BARRY. ROESSLER (1869) MENTIONS WICHITA COUNTY COPPER IN 1868.
Deposit Discovery Year: 1872 OR BEFORE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1993 Fay, Robert O. Oklahoma Geological Survey

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