U S Steel Texas Works

Producer in Chambers county in Texas, United States with commodity Iron
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. Mineral rights holdings
  9. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10227379
MAS/MILS ID 0480710007
Record type Site
Current site name U S Steel Texas Works

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Plant
Geographic coordinates: -94.89772, 29.69274 (WGS84)
Elevation 7
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chambers(county)

Texas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Morgans Point(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Anahuac(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Houston(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

North Galveston Bay(hydrologic unit)

Galveston Bay-Sabine Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Galveston Bay-San Jacinto(hydrologic subregion)

Texas-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Texas Chambers

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Nearby scientific data

Plant (1) -94.89772, 29.69274

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Private Lease

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner U.S. Steel Corp.
    Home office Pennsylvania
    Year 1979

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ELECTRIC FURNACE SMELTER

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Garner 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.