Monsanto Mines

Prospect in Marshall county in Tennessee, United States with commodities Fluorine-Fluorite, 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. Ownership information
  9. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000660
MRDS ID ISM0349
Record type District
Current site name Monsanto Mines
Alternate or previous names Monsanto Properties

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -87.1167, 35.6668 (WGS84)
Relative position DEPOSIT CONSISTS OF 49 ORE BODIES IN FIVE COUNTIES

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 Marshall
United States Tennessee Maury
United States Tennessee Williamson
United States Tennessee Hickman
United States Tennessee Giles

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Phosphorus-Phosphates Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -87.1167, 35.6668

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Non-metallic
Discovery year 1935

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner MONSANTO INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL COMPANY
  • Type Operator
    Owner MONSANTO INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL COMPANY
  • Type Operator
    Owner FARMERS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
  • Type Operator
    Owner OTHER MINING CONSTRUCTORS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BRITISH SULPHUR CORP. LTD., 1980: WORLD SURVEY OF PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS, 4TH ED., LONDON

  • Deposit

    WORLD MINING, WORLD MINES REGISTER 1981-82, SAN FRANCISCO

Beyond USGS

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