Mine detail: Lone Star Deposits

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Location: Morris County, Texas, United States, North America
Lat / long: 32.95016, -94.67522
dep_id: 10203466
mas_id: 483430001
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Iron
Trace mineral: Water, Free
Operation type: Surface
Development status: Past Producer
other_matl: Goethite, Hematite, Ilmenite, Limonite, Pyrite, Quartz, Siderite, Tourmaline, Zircon
work_type: Surface
Reporter: Hartos
Year first produced: 1855
disc_yr: 1830
References:
  • Deposit:: BOND, W.R. BENEFICIATION OF EAST TEXAS IRON ORES-BASIS
  • Deposit:: OF LONE STAR OPERATIONS. JOURNAL OF METALS, APRIL 1953,
  • Deposit:: PP. 515-519.
  • Deposit:: BURCHARD, E.F. IRON ORE IN CASS, MARION, MORRIS, AND
  • Deposit:: CHEROKEE COUNTIES, TEXAS. U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 620,
  • Deposit:: 1915, PP. 69-109.
  • Deposit:: ECKEL, E.B. THE BROWN ORES OF EASTERN TEXAS. U.S.
  • Deposit:: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 902, 1938, 157 PP.
  • Deposit:: FINE, M.M., D.W. FROMMER, AND W.M. DRESSEL.
  • Deposit:: PRELIMINARY MINERAL-DRESSING INVESTIGATION OF EAST TEXAS
  • Deposit:: BROWN ORES. BUMINES RI 5252, 1956, 10 PP.
  • Deposit:: MALONE, V.F. MINING EAST TEXAS IRON ORES. MINING
  • Deposit:: ENGINEERING, MAY 1957, PP. 524-527.
  • Deposit:: MC GRAW-HILL. 1981 E&MJ INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF
  • Deposit:: MINING AND MINERAL PROCESSING OPERATIONS. MC GRAW-HILL
  • Deposit:: MINING PUBLICATIONS, NEW YORK, 1981, P. 94.
  • Deposit:: NORTHWEST INDUSTRIES, INC. 1980 ANNUAL REPORT. P. 48.
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