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Sunset Red Quarry

Producer in Burnet county in Texas, United States with commodity Stone, Dimension
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10107163
MRDS ID TC38654
Record type Site
Current site name Sunset Red Quarry
Alternate or previous names Granite Mountain
Related records 10202752

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -98.29865, 30.5891 (WGS84)
Relative position 1 MI N55W OF MARBLE FALLS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Burnet(county)

Texas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Marble Falls(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Llano(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Llano(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Austin-Travis Lakes(hydrologic unit)

Middle Colorado-Llano(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-San Bernard Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Texas-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Texas Burnet

Comments on the location information

  • ON NE FLANK GRANITE MTN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Dimension Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • DIMENSION STONE (RUBBLE, CUT STONE, VENEER, MONUMENTAL, ETC.) MARKETED AS "SUNSET RED GRANITE"

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Granite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Town Mountain Granite
    Rock description Town Mountain Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mesoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mesoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -98.29865, 30.5891
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • QUARRY LOCATED ON AN EXFOLIATION DOME OF GRANITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Texas Granite Corp.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BARNES, V.E., ET. AL., 1947, BUILDING STONES OF CENTRAL TEXAS: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PUB. 4246, 198 P.

  • Deposit

    TEXAS BUREAU OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, 1991, NONPETROLEUM MINERAL PRODUCERS IN TEXAS.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

Reporter information

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

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