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Knight-Field Deposit

Occurrence in Cass county in Texas, United States with commodities Iron, Stone
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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 10063155
MRDS ID TC36796
Record type Site
Current site name Knight-Field Deposit
Alternate or previous names Lanier
Related records 10226856

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -94.39078, 32.91794 (WGS84)
Relative position JUST W OF LANIER.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cass(county)

Texas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cunningham Creek(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
Stone Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Goethite Ore
Hematite Ore
Siderite 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) -94.39078, 32.91794
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Length 8046.5M
    Width 4506.04M
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Mining district

District name North Basin

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • A SMALL QUARRY WORKS A 4 FT BED OF GLAUCONITIC SANDSTONE FOR BUILDING STONE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS B 902, P. 108-111

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SCATTERED DEPOSITS OF VARIABLE THICKNESS AND PURITY. THE MOST PROMISING ZONE IS 600 AC IN EXTENT WITH AN AVERAGE THICKNESS BETWEEN 10 AND 15 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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