Presley Oil Soak Clay Mine-Kemper County

Past Producer in Kemper county in Mississippi, United States with commodity Fullers Earth
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10306987
Record type Site
Current site name Presley Oil Soak Clay Mine-Kemper County

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -88.58337, 32.80017 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Kemper(county)

Mississippi(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Townsend(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

De Kalb(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Meridian(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sucarnoochee(hydrologic unit)

Mobile Bay-Tombigbee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Mobile-Tombigbee(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Mississippi Kemper

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fullers Earth Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Montmorillonite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) Porters Creek formation

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Clay Shale

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Comments on the workings information

  • Abandoned

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Knox, S.C., Mccarley, K., 1997, Mississippi Department Of Environmental Quality, Office Of Geology, Surface Mining Permits, Open-File Report 65.Knox, S.C., Mccarley, K., 1997, Mississippi Department Of Environmental Quality, Office Of Geology, Surface Mining Permits, Open-File Report 65.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Presley Oil Soak, Inc.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Editor 01-DEC-2002 Woodruff, L.G. U.S. Geological Survey Entered County
Reporter 11-DEC-1998 Thompson, David E. Mississippi Office of Geology

Beyond USGS

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