A mineral resource survey of Texas has been started by the Works Progress Administration, with the Bureau of Economic Geology of The University of Texas acting as sponsor. The purpose of the survey is to assemble information available to the public. The project was approved in November 1936, and the funds became available in December 1935. The first counties to get actually underway under the project were those of District No. 9, where four counties-Burnet, Lee, Milam, and Travis-were started on January 27, 1936.

At the present time, the mineral resource survey is in progress in thirteen counties as follows: Bell, Bexar, Burnet, Eastland, Falls, Glasscock, Lee, Limestone, Milam, Robertson, Taylor, and Travis. Arrangements for starting the survey have been largely completed in fifteen other counties. Through a separate project, sponsored by the State Planning Board, the results of the survey, as they are received in Austin, are being assembled for publication. The mineral resource survey is helping in the location of mineral products, from some of which it is reasonable to suppose industries of value to the State may be developed.