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Barbers Hill Mine (Past Producer)Diamond Shamrock Barbers Hill Brine (Producer)U S Steel Texas Works (Producer)Lost Lake Salt Dome (Occurrence)
Past ProducerProducerProspectOccurrenceStatus unknown
4 paw pins, one per site. Hover or tap a pin for the site name. 1 site(s) with USGS coordinates outside the outline are not pinned. County outline: US Census Bureau cartographic boundary file (2023). Locations approximate.

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Barbers Hill Mine

We picked it because its USGS record mentions 1 of the minerals on our cards and 1 of our card minerals overall. No other named site here scores as high on both counts. USGS lists it as past producer for Halite. Minerals mentioned: Pyrite. Approx. location 29.800, -94.920. USGS record.

Ask first: a USGS record doesn’t mean you can visit. Find out who owns the land and get permission before collecting.

Field cards: what kind of sites?

2
Occurrence

The mineral was noted here, without development.

2
Producer

Was producing when the record was made.

1
Past Producer

Produced ore or material at some point in the past.

Status terms come from USGS MRDS records.

Mineral cards

Counts are sites whose USGS record mentions the mineral or commodity. Hardness from Mindat.

Minerals recorded here

Halite 3

Commodities

Halite 3Iron 1Salt 1

Sites

SiteCommodityMinerals recordedStatusApprox. location
Barbers Hill MineHaliteHalitePast Producer29.800, -94.920
Lost Lake Salt DomeHaliteHaliteOccurrence29.859, -94.767
Red Fish Salt DomeHaliteHaliteOccurrence29.542, -94.842
U S Steel Texas WorksIron—Producer29.693, -94.898
Diamond Shamrock Barbers Hill BrineSalt—Producer29.839, -94.893

Nearby counties

Liberty County · Harris County · Galveston County · Hardin County · Jefferson County

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How we built this page: we counted named sites in the USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) for this area, left out sand, gravel, crushed stone, clay pits and unnamed sites, grouped them by Census county, and linked every site to its USGS record. We did not visit these sites, and MRDS does not tell you who owns the land or whether collecting is allowed.

Source: USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS). USGS ceased systematic updates to MRDS around 2011, so status and details may be out of date. Each site links to its USGS record.

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