Mount Pleasent Plant

Prospect in Giles county in Tennessee, United States with commodities Phosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite
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. Mining district
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10024625
MRDS ID ISM0350
Record type Site
Current site name Mount Pleasent Plant
Alternate or previous names Stauffer Chemical Co. Properties, Globe Mine
Related records 10129088

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -87.16667, 35.53343 (WGS84)
Elevation 200
Relative position PLANT 10 KM

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maury(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Pleasant(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 Giles
United States Tennessee Maury
United States Tennessee Williamson

Comments on the location information

  • 1:1,000,000 SCALE MAP

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Phosphorus-Phosphates Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PHOSPHATE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Bigby Cannon;Catheys
    Rock description Bigby Cannon;Catheys

Nearby scientific data

(1) -87.16667, 35.53343

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • ; CARBONATE FLUORAPATITE, QUARTZ, SMECTITE, DOLOMITE, CALCITE, SOME PYRITE; PHOSPHATE DEPOSITED WHEN COOLER LONGSHORE CURRENTS (MOVING SOUTH) WERE MIXED WITH WARMER WATERS OF THE GULF STREAM DEPOSITED IN MOSTLY SHALLOW WATER ON THE FLANKS OF GENTLE DOME THAT WERE RISING DURING DEPOSITION

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1893
Year of first production 1936

Mining district

District name Brown-Rock Phosphate District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Pressnell Phosphate Corp. And Others
  • Type Owner
    Owner Stauffer Chemical Co.
    Home office P.O. Box 89 Mt. Pleasant,Tn. 38474 Phone(615)379-7781 Attn: George A. Herr

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • RR41) R3-RESOURCES

Comments on development

  • NON-GEOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON DEVELOPMENT OR EXPANSION IN 1-5 YRS. (ENVIRONMENT;). DEVELOPMENT(NO); EXPLORATION(YES); ASSESSMENT(MINING COMPANIES ARE PROSPECTING AND MAKING PLAN FOR FUTURE MINING);

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS RECORD WAS COMPILED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MINERALS INVENTORY. THE DATA WERE USED IN PREPARATION OF THE USGS CIRCULAR 930 SERIES OF REPORTS. MINERAL RESOURCE CATEGORIES AND CODES HEREIN ARE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM RECOMMENDED BY THE UNITED NATIONS GROUP OF EXPERTS ON DEFINITIONS AND TERMINOLOGY FOR MINERAL RESOURCES. (SEE NATIONAL RESOURCES FORUM, V. 4, NO. 3, P. 307-313.). 15-50 M
Deposit Discovery Year: 1950'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1983 Saam, Henning G. Bundesanstalt Fuer Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffee (Germany)

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:

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