| Deposit ID | 10040135 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | M054805 |
| MAS/MILS ID | 480430026 |
| Record type | Site |
| Mineralized Area | Terlingua |
| Current site name | Lone Star Mine |
| Alternate or previous names | Tres Cuevas, Natural Resources Inc., Section 58, Black Mesa, Natural Resources, Inc., Claims in Sec. 58., Tres Cuevas Quicksilver Co Mine |
| Related records | 10251577 |
| Point of reference | Main Entrance |
|---|---|
| Geographic coordinates: | -103.71778, 29.31428 (WGS84) |
| Elevation | 1036 |
| Location accuracy | 100(meters) |
| Relative position | 7 MI W OF TERLINGUA. Numerous workings shown within the Lone Star Mine area but not individually labeled on topo. Corrdinates are for shaft on the top of Tres Cuevas Mtn. |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Brewster(county)
Texas(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Amarilla Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Chisos Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Emory Peak(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Black Hills-Fresno(hydrologic unit)
Rio Grande-Amistad(hydrologic accounting unit)
Rio Grande-Amistad(hydrologic subregion)
Rio Grande(hydrologic region)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Texas | Brewster |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Mercury | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Cinnabar | Ore |
| Calcite | Gangue |
| Clay | Gangue |
| Host or associated | Host | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone | ||||
| Rock unit name | Santa Elena Limestone | ||||
| Rock description | Santa Elena Limestone | ||||
| |||||
| Main Entrance (1) | -103.71778, 29.31428 |
|---|
| Operation type | Surface-Underground |
|---|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| Production years | 1910s, 1940s, 1954-1958 |
| District name | Terlingua District |
|---|
| Type of mineral rights | Private Lease |
|---|
| Ownership category | Private |
|---|
| Type | Unknown |
|---|---|
| Owner | Lone Star Mercury Co. |
| Year | 1965 |
| Type | Unknown |
|---|---|
| Owner | Natural Resources Inc. |
| Year | 1965 |
| Type | Owner-Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | Tres Cuevas Quicksilver Co. , Natural Resources Inc. , Lone Star Mercury Co. |
| First year | 1918 |
| Last year | 1943 |
| Year | 1960 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | To 1960 | ||||||||||||||
| Material | HG | ||||||||||||||
| Accuracy | Estimate | ||||||||||||||
| Description | Cp_Grade: ^4 Lb/Ton | ||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
| Type of workings | Surface/Underground |
|---|---|
| Overall length | 15.24M |
| Overall width | 15.24M |
| Type of workings | Underground |
|---|---|
| Name of workings | shallow shafts, drifts |
| Type of workings | Surface/Underground |
|---|---|
| Name of workings | open pit, adit |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | M054805 | |
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 480430026 | =newMRDS 10251577, merged and deleted. |
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | M054814 | |
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 480430011 | = 10154470, merged and deleted. |
CHESTER, J. W., 1965, MERCURY IN TEXAS, in USBM, Mercury potential in the United States: USBM IC 8252, Ch. 10.
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.
EXAMINED BY C.P. ROSS AND OTHERS, 1934.
EXAMINED BY R.G. YOUNG AND OTHERS, 1942-1945.
CIMRI
USBM DATA
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | VEINS ALONG STEEPLY DIPPING FRACTURES. |
| Deposit | INCLUDES DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD M054814 (BLACK MESA) BY JOCELYN A. PETERSON (76 09) WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED. |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 1976-09-01 | Peterson, Jocelyn A. | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Updater | 1992-09-01 | Long, Keith R. | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Editor | 2012-10-31 | Wilson, Anna B | U.S. Geological Survey | merged and deleted duplicate record 10251577 and 10154470. |
| Reporter | 1983-11-18 | Garner | U.S. Bureau of Mines | MAS 0480430026 = 10251577. MAS 0480430011 = 10154470. |
Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.