741The Mineral Industry of Texas 
 
This chapter has been prepared under a cooperative agreement between the
Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of the Interior, and the Bureau of Economic
Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, for collecting information on
all minerals except fuels. 
 
 
By F. F. Netzebancl 1 and Roselle Girard2 
 
 
 
Texas, with a $5.4 billion value of mineral production in 1967, led the Nation
for the 33d consecutive year. The 1967 total value was about 8 percent greater
than that of 1966. The State was the largest domestic producer of crude oil,
natural gas, natural gas liquids, and magnesium metal. Substantial quantities
of cement, clay, gypsum, iron ore, lime, salt, sand and gravel, stone, and
sulfur were 
also produced. Minerals and mineral fuels were produced in 236 of the State's
254 counties; crude oil in 199 counties; natural gas in 192; natural gas
liquids in 123; nonmetallic minerals in 168; and metallic minerals in eight.

 
 1 Mining engineer, Bureau of Mines, Dallas, Tex. 
 2 Geologist, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, Texas. 
 
Table k—Mineral production in Texas1 
Mineral 
1966 
—————~ 
Quantity Value (thousands) 
 
1967 
————~-— Quantity Value 
(thousands) 
Cement: 
 
 
 
Portland     thousand 376-pound barrels Masonry     thousand 280-pound barrels
- 
Clays thousand short tons -Gem stones                             
30,827 
884 
4,516 NA 
$97, 188 
2,872 
7,187 
150 
 31,944 $99,329 888 2,847 4,497 8,081 NA 150 
Gypsum thousand short tons 
Helium: 
899 
3,258 
 984 3,419 
 Refined thousand cubic feet - 
 Crude do~~ 
Lime thousandshorttons_Natural gas million cubic feet~ 
Natural gas liquids: 
Natural gasoline and cycle products 
  thousand gallons.. LPgases do. 
Petroleum (crude).. thousand 42-gallon barrels - 
Salt thousand short tons~Sand and gravel do~ 
Stone (includes basalt and shell) do - - - 
Sulfur (Frasch process) thousand long tons -Talc short tons~ 
Value of items that cannot be disclosed: Asphalt (native), barite (1966),
bromine, coal (lignite), graphite, iron ore (usable), magnesium chloride
(for metal), magnesium compounds (except for metal), mercury, perlite, pumicite,
sodium sulfate, uranium (recoverable content U30,), and crude vermiculite
(1967)                 
 
Total                             
Total 1957—59 constant dollars  
364,100 
1,030,500 
1,473 
6,953,790 
 
 
3,890,267 
6,359,870 
1,057,706 
7,724 
26,222 
43,578 
3,703 
102,399 
 
 
 
 
 
XX 
 12,744 
 10,605 
 18,696 
 903,993 
 
 
 269,332 
 260,755 
3,141,387 
 33,797 
 31,313 
 56,659 
 96,820 
367 
 
 
 
 
 
 74,918 
 335,900 9,900 977,600 10,246 1,564 20,713 7,188,900 948,935 
 4,031,589 277,105 7,449,439 320,326 1,119,962 3,375,565 8,344 36,435 31,398
39,170 49,424 61,577 3,448 111,931 90,836 356 
 XX — 80,286 
 
XX 
XX 
r 5,022,041 4,885,240 
XX — 5,406,371 XX '  5,200,941 
 '  Preliminary. - Revised. XX Not applicable. NA Not available. 
 ' Production as measured by mine shipments, sales, or marketable production
(including consumption by producers).