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Marble Canyon Quarry

Producer in Culberson county in Texas, United States with commodities Marble, Dimension, Magnesite
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10085754
MRDS ID W701390
Record type Site
Current site name Marble Canyon Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -104.8944, 31.43211 (WGS84)
Relative position 27 MI (43 KM) N OF VAN HORN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Culberson(county)

Texas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Apache Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Van Horn(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Van Horn(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Salt Basin(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande Closed Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande Closed Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Texas Culberson

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Marble, Dimension Primary
Magnesite Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Gangue
Diopside Gangue
Dolomite Gangue
Forsterite Gangue
Monticellite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Contact Metamorphism

Analytical data

Result THE INTRUSIVE ROCKS ARE ENRICHED IN FLUORINE (UP TO 0.28%) AND MOLYBDENUM (UP TO 0.0010%), ACCORDING TO DATA OF THE BUREAU OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Hueco Limestone;Bone Spring Limestone
    Rock description Hueco Limestone;Bone Spring Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -104.8944, 31.43211
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • SMALL AMOUNTS OF MAGNETITE-SKARN AND MALACHITE-BEARING MARBLE ARE PRESENT NEAR THE INTRUSIVE CONTACT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No
Year of first production 1906

Mining district

District name Marble Canyon

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Texas Architectural Aggregate

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION: APPROXIMATELY 300,000 TONS OF BRUCITE-CALCITE MARBLE MINED BY TEXAS ARCHITECTURAL AGGREGATE, MOSTLY FROM UNDERGROUND WORKINGS, FROM 1964 TO 1982.

Comments on development

  • SIGNIFICANT PRODUCTION ONLY SINCE 1962.

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

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    PRICE AND OTHERS, 1983

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1991 Paidakovich, Matthew E. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1992 Long, Keith R. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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