Mine detail: Yegua Creek Placer District

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

30.3155, -96.63499

Resource(M)

Tertiary:	Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Thorium
Ore:	Ilmenite, Magnetite, Monazite, Zircon
Gangue:	Apatite, Biotite, Corundum, Fluorite, Garnet, Hematite, Kyanite, Limonite, Rutile, Spinel, Staurolite, Tourmaline
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1954

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Beach Placer
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:	Wellborn Formation
Host type:	Sandstone
Tectonic:	Passive Continental Margin

References

MRDS	W001337
DEP	10096163
Reference	{Deposit:: SHELBY, C.A., 1965, HEAVY MINERALS IN THE WELLBORN FORMATION, LEE AND BURLESON COUNTIES, TEXAS: TEXAS BUREAU OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY REPT. INVEST. 55, 54P.}{Deposit:: HAHN, A., ET AL, 1961, TITANIUM-BEARING DEPOSITS IN SOUTH TEXAS: US BUREAU OF MINES RI 5712, 84 P.}{Deposit:: DRILLING AND SAMPLING BY US BUREAU OF MINES 1958.}{Deposit:: FIELD WORK AND LAB ANALYSES 1956-1960 BY C.A. SHELBY, P.T. FLAWN, AND J.M. PEGG, TEXAS BUREAU OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY.}{Reserve-Resource:: HAHN ET AL (1961)}
Reporter	Force, Eric R., Long, Keith R.