When a reference is made to the mineral resources of Texas, most people think of oil and gas, and some few also of sulfur. And, of course, it is true that of the whopping $4.4 billion dollars’ worth of minerals produced in Texas in 1963, 92% was oil, gas, and natural gas liquids.

This circular presents the history of "geological survey" in Texas from its beginning in 1858, through its intermittent early history, to [1965]. It also shows that any organization which carried the name "survey" was very short-lived in Texas.

The uranium industry, born in boom in the late 1940's and early 1950's, fell upon hard times after about a decade of lusty growth as anticipated private markets failed to develop on schedule and the United States Atomic Energy Commission cut back and stretched out its purchase program.

The conservation movement has grown enormously in strength and breadth during the last decade as a result of widespread concern about natural resources and the quality of the environment.

In the United States the average citizen produces 6 to 8 pounds of solid wastes per day--this includes his personal contribution plus his pro-rata share of industrial and agricultural wastes.

Zoned and unzoned perthite-quartz-plagioclase-muscovite pegmatites in the form of tabular bodies, irregular bodies with tabular branches, irregular masses, elongate lenses, lit-par-lit zones, and small augen and stringers are distributed throughout the Precambrian metasedimentary rocks of the Mic

The Hazel mine is one of the oldest mines in Texas and has been the largest copper-producing property in the State.

Texas' Hudspeth County talc mining, begun in 1952 when Southwestern Talc Corp. carried out pioneer exploratory operations, has expanded during the last five years and can today claim six active operations. These Include (1) Southwestern Talc Corp., Llano, Texas, (2) West Texas Talc Corp.

The former Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology from 1960 through 1970, Dr.