Stauffer Mine 223-18

Past Producer in Maury county in Tennessee, 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. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Land status
  9. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10178299
MRDS ID K002356
MAS/MILS ID 0471190007
Record type Site
Current site name Stauffer Mine 223-18
Related records 10026033

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -87.1283, 35.48011 (WGS84)
Elevation 305

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maury(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sandy Hook(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lawrenceburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Columbia(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Duck(hydrologic unit)

Lower Tennessee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Tennessee(hydrologic subregion)

Tennessee(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Maury

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Phosphorus-Phosphates Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -87.1283, 35.48011

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • PHOSPHATE ROCK IS MINED FORM RESIDIUM OF THE ORDOVICIAN BIGS CANNON LIMESTONE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Stauffer Chemical Co.
    ID W022807
    Home office Tennessee

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CRIB MINERAL RESOURCES FILE.

  • Deposit

    USGS GSC, JULY 95.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PROPERTY DUPLICATED UNDER MAS SEQ#0471190076 (DELETED JULY 95). ALSO LISTED UNDER USGS GSC ID #W022807. ONE OF SEVERAL MINES SUPPLYING THE GLOBE PLANT: MAS SEQ# 0471199009.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 11-JUL-1995 Eastern Field Operations Center (EFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.