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Jurnigan 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. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10063152
MRDS ID TC36793
Record type Site
Current site name Jurnigan Deposit
Alternate or previous names Jurnigan Hill
Related records 10153971

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -94.32382, 32.94599 (WGS84)
Elevation 108
Relative position 3 MI E OF LANIER.

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

Comments on the location information

  • INCLUDES NEGRO HILL AND MARETT TRACT.

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) Queen City Sand
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Length 4506.04M
    Width 2011.63M
    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

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • (1) CALCULATED FROM DATA GIVEN IN SOURCE.

Comments on the workings information

  • MORE THAN 400 PROSPECT SHAFTS AND PITS ON JURNIGAN AND NEGRO HILLS.

Comments on development

  • JURNIGAN HILL EXTENSIVELY TESTED BY PROSPECT PITS TO 44 FT DEPTH AND NEGRO HILL TO 18 FT DEPTH. SOME 21 DRILL HOLES IN UPPER PART OF JURNIGAN HILL. THE MARETT TRACT HAS NOT BEEN TESTED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS B 902, P. 102-104

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Reserve-Resource

    (1) USGS B 902, P. 104.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ABOUT 745 AC IS ORE-BEARING. AVERAGE THICKNESS OF EXPOSED ORE ZONES IS 3 FT, BURIED ORE ZONE 18 FT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1993 Long, Keith R. U.S. Geological Survey

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

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