Evaluation of potential mineral resources in the vicinity of seven selected domes in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi

This report attempts to evaluate, as quantitatively as reasonable, the possible potential resources around seven salt domes in East Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Any estimation of possible potential resources is difficult under the most favorable circumstances, so in the absence of precise geophysical data supplemented by drilling, any such estimates must be considered best-guess estimates. It is possible, however, to achieve a range of possible amounts of potential resources, the maximal ranges being impractical but, providing a framework within which future data will categorize and evaluate the resources more precisely. These volumetric ranges of potential resources for each dome have been estimated and each dome then ranked on a scale of 1 to 10 for (a) prospectivity of the enclosing stratigraphic sequences, (b) structural prospectivity, (c) prospectivity relative to different possible potential resources, and (d) a collective prospectivity