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Unnamed Occurrence

Occurrence in Brewster county in Texas, United States with commodity Barium-Barite
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10085705
MRDS ID W701336
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Occurrence
Alternate or previous names Unnamed Occurrence At Pena Blanca Spring

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -103.11852, 30.12577 (WGS84)
Relative position 9 MI (14 KM) SE OF MARATHON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Brewster(county)

Texas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lightning Hills(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Alpine(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Fort Stockton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Francisco(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande-Amistad(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Amistad(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Texas Brewster

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS APPROXIMATE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Rock unit name Tesnus Formation
    Rock description Tesnus Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • IT WAS NOTED THAT BARITE NODULES HAVING RADIATING COLUMNAR STRUCTURE OCCUR NEAR THE BASE OF THE ROUGH CREEK SHALE MEMBER OF THE TESNUS FORMATION AT PENA BLANCA SPRING.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Marathon Region

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PRICE, J. G., HENRY, C. D., AND STANDEN, A. R., 1983, ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MINERAL DEPOSITS IN TRANS-PECOS TEXAS: BUREAU OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY (TEXAS), MINERAL RESOURCE CIRCULAR NO. 73, 108 P.

  • Deposit

    UNIV TEX PUB 4301 P. 106.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BARITE OCCURS AS NODULES IN SHALE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1990 Paidakovich, Matthew E. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1993 Long, Keith R. U.S. Geological Survey

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