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Gleason Clay Pit No. 3

Producer in Weakley county in Tennessee, United States with commodity Brick Clay
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10025244
MRDS ID K000942
Record type Site
Current site name Gleason Clay Pit No. 3
Related records 10299978

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -88.67699, 36.24398 (WGS84)
Elevation 107
Relative position 2 MILES WEST OF OLD HICKORY CLAY CO. PLANT AND 1200 FEET NORTH OF PAVED ROAD

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Weakley(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pillowville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

McKenzie(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dyersburg(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork Obion(hydrologic unit)

Hatchie-Obion(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Mississippi-Hatchie(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Mississippi(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Weakley

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Brick Clay Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PROBABLY BALL CLAY

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -88.67699, 36.24398
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Mississippi Embayment

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR
    Thickness 3.05M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1968
Production years PRE 1968-1972

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner W. G. Bush And Co., Inc.
    Home office Nashville, Tn.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Raymond Barber
    Home office Gleason, Tn.

Comments on the production information

  • BENEFICIATION - MIXED WITH OVERBURDEN FROM OTHER CLAY PITS; TRANSPORTATION BY TRUCK; PRODUCTION DATA NOT AVAILABLE

Comments on development

  • RAYMOND BARBER ALSO MINING CONTRACTOR. PIT OPENED BY BUSH PRE 1968

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WHITLATCH, G. I., 1940, THE CLAYS OF WEST TENNESSEE: TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY BULL. 49, 355 P

  • Deposit

    1940 GEOLMAP TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY, MAP-REPORT

  • Deposit

    1973 COMPILE TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY, INVENTORY

  • Deposit

    MINING AND MINERAL PLANT INVENTORY, 1972, T.D.G., T.V.A., U.S.B.M., MANUSCRIPT

  • Production

    TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY 1972 MINE INVENTORY

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CLAY MIXED WITH OVERBURDEN FROM OTHER CLAY PITS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1973 Fagan, James M. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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