(Facility) Corpus Christi Zinc Refinery

Plant in Nueces county in Texas, United States with commodities Cadmium, Zinc
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. Land status
  9. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10276203
MAS/MILS ID 0483550005
Record type Site
Current site name (Facility) Corpus Christi Zinc Refinery

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Plant
Geographic coordinates: -97.46609, 27.8139 (WGS84)
Elevation 8
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nueces(county)

Texas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Corpus Christi(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Corpus Christi(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Corpus Christi(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Corpus Christi Bay(hydrologic unit)

Southwestern Texas Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Nueces-Southwestern Texas Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Texas-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Texas Nueces

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Cadmium Tertiary
Zinc Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Plant (1) -97.46609, 27.8139

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Significant Yes
Plant type Refiner

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.)
    Year 1991

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    E&MJ DIRECTORY M&MP OWN/OP: ASARCO

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PLANT PERMANENTLY CLOSED IN APRIL 1985. CONVERTED INTO A WASTE TREATMENT FACILITY. (USBM 1988 MINERALS YEARBOOK. ZINC P. 1022)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 15-FEB-1995 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

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:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.