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Brown-Rock Phosphate District

Producer in Davidson county in Tennessee, United States with commodity Phosphorus-Phosphates
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Geologic structures
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Ownership information
  11. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000658
MRDS ID ISM0347
Record type District
Current site name Brown-Rock Phosphate District
Alternate or previous names Hooker Chemical, Monsanto Mines, Mount Pleasant

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -86.99999, 36.16679 (WGS84)
Relative position ESTIMATED, 1:1,000,000 SCALE MAP

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cheatham(county)

Tennessee(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Scottsboro(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Nashville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nashville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Cumberland-Sycamore(hydrologic unit)

Lower Cumberland(hydrologic accounting unit)

Cumberland(hydrologic subregion)

Ohio(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Tennessee Davidson
United States Tennessee Hickman
United States Tennessee Lincoln
United States Tennessee Rutherford
United States Tennessee Sumner
United States Tennessee Marshall
United States Tennessee Williamson
United States Tennessee Maury
United States Tennessee Giles

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Phosphorus-Phosphates Primary

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description BASIN, WEST FLANK OF NASHVILLE DOME

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Discovery year 1894
Year of first production 1896

Mining district

District name BROWN-ROCK PHOSPHATE DISTRICT

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner MONSANTO CHEMICAL CO.
  • Type Owner
    Owner STAUFFER CHEMICAL CO.
  • Type Owner
    Owner OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL CO.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SMITH R.W., WHITLATCH, G.I., 1940: TENNESSEE DIVISION OF GEOLOGY, BULLETIN 48

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:

  • STAUFFER CHEMICAL CO. — dissolved ~1985
    Acquired by Rhône-Poulenc in 1985; agricultural and industrial chemical businesses dispersed through multiple owners over the following two decades.

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.

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