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Prewitt Deposit

Occurrence in Cass county in Texas, United States with commodity Iron
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10063151
MRDS ID TC36792
Record type Site
Current site name Prewitt Deposit
Alternate or previous names Pruitt

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -94.31132, 32.97099 (WGS84)
Elevation 107
Relative position 2 MI SE OF LINDEN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cass(county)

Texas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lanier(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Marshall(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tyler(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Caddo Lake(hydrologic unit)

Big Cypress-Sulphur(hydrologic accounting unit)

Red-Sulphur(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Texas Cass

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Goethite Ore
Hematite Ore
Clay Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Weches Member, Mount Selman Formation
    Rock description Weches Mbr, Mount Selman Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -94.31132, 32.97099
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Length 6437.2M
    Width 1448.37M
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name North Basin

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner East Texas Iron Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Reilly Prewitt

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • (1) CALCULATED FROM DATA GIVEN IN SOURCE. AN ADDITIONAL 280 AC OF POSSIBLE ORE MAY YIELD AROUND 1500 LT PER ACRE.

Comments on the workings information

  • MORE THAN 500 PROSPECT SHAFTS AND PITS.

Comments on development

  • DEPOSIT HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY PROSPECTED BY SHAFTS AND DRILLING (62 HOLES).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS B 902, P. 98-102

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Reserve-Resource

    (1) USGS B 902, P. 101.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CONCRETIONS AND LENSES OF COALESCING CONCRETIONS. SOME ORE IS SILICEOUS. ABOUT 1170 ACRES ARE ORE-BEARING.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-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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