Locality: Spindletop Salt Dome, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas, Elemental Sulfur is common in Salt Domes of the Gulf Coast Chemical Formula: S Crystal Class: Orthorhombic, crystals are usually yellow to yellowish-brown blocky dipyramids, with thick tabular and disphenoidal crystals less common. Field of View: 2 in across In the Arthur E. Smith Collection, on display at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. Additional Information: The Spindletop Salt Dome discovery sparked an oil boom in Texas, and it produced until about 1936. It was then mined for sulfur from the 1950s to about 1975. This sample was obtained from well operator TexasGulf from a cored interval 1485 to 1508 feet down, on the McFaddin Lease.
Sulfur on Calcite, Boling Salt Dome, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas
Locality: Boling Salt Dome, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas, Elemental Sulfur is common in Salt Domes of the Gulf Coast Chemical Formula: S Crystal Class: Orthorhombic, crystals are usually yellow to yellowish-brown blocky dipyramids, with thick tabular and disphenoidal crystals less common. Diameter of core: 2 ½ inches In the Arthur E. Smith Collection, on display at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. Additional Information: Sulfur production at the Boling Dome is from the crest of the caprock to deep down the southeast flank of the cap. The first well went into production in March 1929, using the Frasch method for removal (pumping steam into the ground to melt the sulfur, then pumping the liquid sulfur out). The sulfur reserve covers more than 1,500 acres. This reserve, owned by Texasgulf, Incorporated, has produced more sulfur than any other sulfur mine in the world. As of 1990, 80.5 million long tons of sulfur had been removed. (ref. Michel Thomas Halbouty, Salt Domes, Gulf Region, United States and Mexico (Houston: Gulf, 1967; 2d ed. 1979)).
Sulfur on Calcite, (sample 2), Boling Salt Dome, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas
Locality: Boling Salt Dome, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas, Elemental Sulfur is common in Salt Domes of the Gulf Coast Chemical Formula: S Crystal Class: Orthorhombic, crystals are usually yellow to yellowish-brown blocky dipyramids, with thick tabular and disphenoidal crystals less common. Length of core: 4 inches In the Arthur E. Smith Collection, on display at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. Additional Information: Sulfur production at the Boling Dome is from the crest of the caprock to deep down the southeast flank of the cap. The first well went into production in March 1929, using the Frasch method for removal (pumping steam into the ground to melt the sulfur, then pumping the liquid sulfur out). The sulfur reserve covers more than 1,500 acres. This reserve, owned by Texasgulf, Incorporated, has produced more sulfur than any other sulfur mine in the world. As of 1990, 80.5 million long tons of sulfur had been removed. (ref. Michel Thomas Halbouty, Salt Domes, Gulf Region, United States and Mexico (Houston: Gulf, 1967; 2d ed. 1979)).