West

Prospect 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. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mineral rights holdings
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10251365
MAS/MILS ID 0471190054
Record type Site
Current site name West

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -87.0675, 35.7004 (WGS84)
Elevation 255

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maury(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Godwin(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hohenwald(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 Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Collophane Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -87.0675, 35.7004

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 2M
    Length 1100M
    Width 600M
    Area 11HA
    Depth to top 3M
    Field Value
    Type of Orebody #1 SEDIMENTARY
    Shape of Orebody #1 IRREGULAR
    Shape of Orebody #2 TABULAR
    Primary mode of Origin RESIDUAL CONCENT
    Secondary mode of Origin SEDIMENTATION
    Primary Ore Control BEDDING
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. NONE
    Minimum Depth to Top 0
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 3
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Total Surface Area (HA) 11
    Date of Last Modification 820616

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1900

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Minerals Only

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Stauffer Chemical Co.
    Interest 100
    Home office Tennessee
    Year 1976

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SMITH, R. W. & WHITLATCH, G. I., 1940, THE PHOSPHATE RESOURC

  • Deposit

    TENNESSEE/ TENNESSEE DIVISION OF GEOLOGY BULLETIN 48, 444 P.

  • Deposit

    BASED ON PHOSPHATE CONTRACT NO. SO14132.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CONTRACT NO. GO-144132 ENTERED 1976/ REVISIONS BY T Q LYDAY RECORD 050, COLUMNS 18-21/ YEAR OF DISCOVERY IS APPROXIMATE. MATRIX RECORD 1/ QUANTITIES GIVEN ARE BASED ON 1,000 SHORT T PER ACRE-FOOT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 27-FEB-1984 Georgia Tech. 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.