Mineral Resources and Mining
Most of the gold produced has come as the by-product of silver and copper ores, but traces of it occur in the Shafter, Van Horn, Allamore, and Ouitman Mountains, and in Howard, Taylor, Irion, Uvalde, and Williamson counties with other rocks and ores. The last reported gold production was from the Presidio mine in 1942. Graphite.
