Blowout Cave Mine

Producer in Blanco county in Texas, United States with commodity Phosphorus-Phosphates
Sections on this page
  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10110210
MRDS ID TC41284
Record type Site
Current site name Blowout Cave Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -98.56894, 30.45465 (WGS84)
Relative position 0.9 MI N50E OF BLOWOUT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Blanco(county)

Texas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Blowout(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pedernales River(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Llano(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Buchanan-Lyndon B. Johnson 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 Blanco

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Phosphorus-Phosphates Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Pedernales Dolomite Member, Wilburns Formation
    Rock description Pedernales Dolomite Mbr, Wilburns Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -98.56894, 30.45465

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • NATURAL CAVE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BARNES, V.E., 1952, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BLOWOUT QUADRANGLE, BLANCO, GILLESPIE, AND LLANO COUNTIES, TEXAS: TEXAS BUREAU OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY GQ-5

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1994 Long, Keith R. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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