Mine detail: Boling Dome

Previously called 'Newgulf Sulfur Operations'

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Location: Wharton County, Texas, United States, North America
Lat / long: 29.28216, -95.88355
dep_id: 10208257
mrds_id: TC34004
mas_id: 484810001
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Sulfur
Operation type: Well
Development status: Past Producer
other_matl: Alabaster, Anhydrite, Barite, Calcite, Celestite, Gypsum, Halite, Selenite, Sulfur
work_type: Underground
Reporter: Buckingham, David A.
Year first produced: 1929
disc_yr: 1922
References:
  • Deposit:: MCGOWEN, J.H. AND OTHERS, 1976, ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGICAL ATL
  • Deposit:: OF THE TEXAS COASTAL ZONE--BAY CITY-FREEPORT AREA: UNIV.
  • Deposit:: TEXAS, AUSTIN, BUR. ECON. GEOLOGY, 98P, 9 MAPS.
  • Deposit:: WOLF, A.G., 1933, THE BOLING DOME, TEXAS IN OKLAHOMA AND
  • Deposit:: TEXAS, GUIDEBOOK 6: INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGIC CONGRESS, 16TH
  • Deposit:: SESSION, UNITED STATES, PP. 86-91.
  • Deposit:: MODERN SULPHUR MINING, TEXAS GULF SULPHUR CO., 1952, NEW
  • Deposit:: YORK, N.Y., 24PP.
  • Deposit:: ELLISON, JR, SULPHUR IN TEXAS, BUREAU OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY
  • Deposit:: HANDBOOK NO. 2, JANUARY 1971, 48PP.
  • Deposit:: ESPENSHADE, G.H. AND BROEDEL, C.H., 1952, ANNOTATED BIBLIO-
  • Deposit:: GRAPHY AND INDEX MAP OF SULPHUR AND PYRITE DEPOSITS IN THE
  • Deposit:: UNITED STATES AND ALASKA: U.S. GEOL SURVEY INF. CIR. 157,
  • Deposit:: NETZEBAND, F.F., EARLY, T.R., RYAN, J.P. AND MILLER, W.C.,
  • Deposit:: 1964, SULPHUR RESOURCES AND PRODUCTION IN TEXAS, LOUISIANA
  • Deposit:: MISSOURI, OKLAHOMA, ARKANSAS, KANSAS AND MISSISSIPPI, AND
  • Deposit:: MARKETS FOR THE SULPHUR: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES INF. CIRC. 8222,
  • Deposit:: 77PP.
  • Deposit:: HAWKINS, M.E. AND C.J. JIRIK. SALT DOMES IN TEXAS, LOUIS-
  • Deposit:: IANA, MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, AND OFFSHORE TIDELANDS: A
  • Deposit:: SURVEY. U.S. BUMINES I.C. 8313, 78PP.
  • Deposit:: HAYNES, W. BRIMSTONE, THE STONE THAT BURNS. D VAN NOSTRAND
  • Deposit:: CO., NEW YORK, N.Y., 1959, 308 PP.
  • Ownership:: MINING ENGINEERING, MAY 1995, P407.
  • Production:: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES. MICROFILM COMPILATION OF CONFIDENTIAL
  • Production:: INDIVIDUAL COMPANY PRODUCTION STATISTICS.
  • Production:: _____. COMPILATION OF PROPRIETARY, INDIVIDUAL COMPANY,
  • Production:: PRODUCTION STATISTICS (FOR THE YEARS 1982 THROUGH 1986).
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