Intrepid bought the mine in 2000 from the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, which had bought Texas Gulf in 1995.

In 1966, the firm prevailed in Leitch Gold Mines v. Texas Gulf, a dispute over vast mineral wealth.

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Faucett, William T. "Shipbuilding in Beaumont during World War II", Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record 2005 41: 55-65.

Schaadt, Robert L. "The Business of Beaumont Prior to 1880", Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record 2006 42: 34-53.

The third board Bush joined was that of Texas Gulf, Inc.

After college, he joined Texas Gulf and was soon sent to Australia, where from 1970 to 1976 he scouted iron ore prospects in the outback.

Texas Gulf then moved him to New York, where he was doing planning for a mining project in Panama before he joined Amax later that year.

Its tenants included companies like Xerox, American Thread, Continental Oil, CBS Laboratories and Texas Gulf.

Libya granted multiple concessions to Esso, Mobil, Texas Gulf, and others, resulting in major oil discoveries by 1959.