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Benavides Mine, Benavides, Duval County, Texas, USAi
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
27° 25' 31'' North , 98° 47' 1'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
27.42531,-98.78366
GeoHash:
G#: 9ucu00euj
GRN:
N19W62
Type:
Mine
Köppen climate type:
BSh : Hot semi-arid (steppe) climate
Nearest Settlements:
PlacePopulationDistance
Bruni379 (2011)5.6km
Las Lomitas244 (2011)15.0km
Hebbronville4,558 (2014)16.7km
Oilton353 (2011)19.3km
Mirando City375 (2011)21.5km
Mindat Locality ID:
274139
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:274139:3
GUID (UUID V4):
0


An U occurrence/mine located about 40 km WSW of Benavides (4.5 miles E of Bruni [Webb County]), in or near (WNW) of the Thanksgiving oil field, in the SW corner of the county, on private land. Operated by Uri Incorporated until 1988 closure.

Mineralization is an U deposit (Mineral occurrence model information: Model code: 204; USGS model code: 30c; BC deposit profile: D05; Deposit model name: Sandstone U), hosted in Miocene sandstone of the Catahoula Formation. Controls for ore emplacement included channel filled sandstone cut by a fault. Local rocks include rocks of the Goliad Formation.

Workings included infrastructure for the solution mining of U.

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Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts
ⓘPyrite2.EB.05aFeS2

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SSulfur
Sⓘ PyriteFeS2
FeIron
Feⓘ PyriteFeS2

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References

Galloway, W.E., and Kaiser, W.R. (1980), Catahoula Formation of the Texas Coastal Plain: Origin, Geochemical Evolution, and Characteristics of Uranium Deposits, Texas Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigation RI 100, 81 pp.
Mining Magazine (1989), (January, 1989): 52.
Texas Bureau of Economic Geology (1991), Nonpetroleum Mineral Producers in Texas.
(2005) Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS), US Geological Survey.
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