Bonne Terre

Past Producer in St. Francois county in Missouri, United States with commodities Lead, Copper, Nickel, Cobalt
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10072179
MRDS ID W016737
Record type Site
Current site name Bonne Terre
Alternate or previous names Lagrave Mines, Desloge Mine Pratt Mines, Pen

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -90.54844, 37.922 (WGS84)
Elevation 244
Relative position 50 MILE SOUTH OF ST. LOUIS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

St. Francois(county)

Missouri(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bonne Terre(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Farmington(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Rolla(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Big(hydrologic unit)

Upper Mississippi-Meramec(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Mississippi-Kaskaskia-Meramec(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Mississippi(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Missouri St. Francois

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
5th Principal 037N 004E 12,14 Missouri

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Copper Secondary
Nickel Critical Secondary
Cobalt Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Calcite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Pyrrhotite Gangue

Analytical data

Result 1 TO 2 OZ. AG PER TON GALENA

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Bonneterre
    Rock description Bonneterre
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -90.54844, 37.922

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ozark Dome, St. Francois Mountains, Simms Mountain Fault, Big River Fault, Farmington Anticline
Type of structure Local
Structure description Strata Are Horizontal, But Locally Dips Of 10 Degree Are Present

Ore body information

  • General form STRINGS, SHEETS
    Length 1143M
    Width 914M
    Depth to bottom 76M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Open-Space Fillings

Comments on the geologic information

  • POST-LOWER ORDOVICIAN FAULTING ( SNYDER, FRANK G. AND GERDEMANN, PAUL E., 1968 )

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Discoverer Valle
Year of first production 1821

Mining district

District name Southeast District, Old Lead Belt

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner St. Joseph Lead Co.
    First year 1866

Comments on the production information

  • ORE AVERAGES 5 % PB

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 61M

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY, MISSISSIPPI RIVER

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WINSLOW, ARTHUR, 1894 , LEAD AND ZINC DEPOSITS, MO. GEOL. SURV., V. 7 , P. 660 - 667

  • Deposit

    KIILSGAARD, T.H., HAYES, W.C., HEYL, A.V., 1967 , METALLIC MINERAL RESOURCES, IN: MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES OF MISSOURI, V. 43 , 2ND SER., P. 41 - 97 .

  • Deposit

    TARR, W.A., 1936 , ORIGIN OF THE SOUTHEAST MISSOURI LEAD DEPOSITS, ECON. GEOL., V. 31 , P. 712 - 754 , 832 - 966 .

  • Deposit

    OHLE, E.L. AND BROWN, J.S., 1954 , GEOLOGIC PROBLEMS IN THE SOUTHEAST MISSOURI LEAD DISTRICT, GEOL. SOC. AM. BULL., V. 65 , NO. 3 , P. 201 - 221 .

  • Deposit

    5) SNYDER, FRANK G. AND GERDEMANN, PAUL E., 1968 , GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHEAST MISSOURI LEAD DISTRICT IN: RIDGE, J.D., ORE DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1933 - 1967 (GRATON-SALES VOLUME): NEW YORK, AM. INST. MINING, METALL. PETROLEUM ENGINEERS, V. 1 , P. 326 - 358 .

  • Production

    WINSLOW, ARTHUR, 1894 , LEAD AND ZINC DEPOSITS, MO. GEOL. SURV. V. 7 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ST. JOSEPH LEAD CO. MINED AT BONNE TERRE FROM 1864 - 1961

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1976 Weeks, Robert U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references