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Marathon Dome Prospect

Prospect in Brewster county in Texas, United States with commodity Mercury
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040129
MRDS ID M054796
Record type Site
Current site name Marathon Dome Prospect
Alternate or previous names Maravillas Prospect, John Bennett Claims, Maravillas Minerals Company, Marathon Dome
Related records 10250944

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Approximate
Geographic coordinates: -103.10194, 29.65677 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10000(meters)
Relative position 34 MI NE OF STUDY BUTTE. Location vague.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Brewster(county)

Texas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bone Spring NE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Santiago Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Emory Peak(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Maravillas(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande-Amistad(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Amistad(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Texas Brewster

Comments on the location information

  • SEC 28, BLK 235
  • Location differed substantially in deleted record MAS 0480430030 which placed a trench within 5 km of 29.625, -103.0833 (WGS84). Based on sketch location map on p. 341 in IC-8252, this may actually be the better location as it is west of Hwy. 2627 (shown as hwy 227 on p. 341)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Clay Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Santa Elena
    Rock description Santa Elena
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

Approximate (1) Santa Elena Limestone
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Nw-Trending Fractures

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Solution-Collapse Breccia

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1945

Mining district

District name Marivillas

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Dow Chemical Co.
    Year 1965
    First year 1957
  • Type Operator
    Owner Maravillas Mining Co., Dow Chemical Co.

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION DATA

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Name of workings shallow shafts, diamond drilling

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: DIAMOND DRILLING BEFORE 1965 FOUND NO ORE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CHESTER, J. W., 1965, MERCURY IN TEXAS: USBM IC 8252

  • Deposit

    Price, J.G., Henry, C.D., and Standen, A.R., 1983, Annotated bibliography of mineral deposits in Trans-Pecos, Texas: [Texas] Bureau of Economic Geology, Mineral Resource Circular No. 73, 108 p.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CINNABAR FILLING SOLUTION-BRECCIAS CONTROLLED BY NW-TRENDING FRACTURES.
Deposit THIS RECORD INCORPORATES DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD D003231 BY WILLIAM J. HASLER (78 04) WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1976-09-01 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 1993-03-01 Long, Keith R. U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 1983-11-18 Garner U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0480430030 = 10250944
Editor 2012-10-31 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted duplicate record 10250944. Reference cited in that record (USGS PP-312) does not contain any information about this deposit. It is for a diferent mining district.

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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