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Mayfield Prospect

Past Producer in Jeff Davis county in Texas, United States with commodities Manganese, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Barium-Barite, Tungsten
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10085792
MRDS ID W701441
Record type Site
Current site name Mayfield Prospect
Alternate or previous names Walter Mayfield Prospect, Chispa
Related records 10275841

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -104.77551, 30.72297 (WGS84)
Relative position 22 MI (36 KM) S OF VAN HORN, 4.5 MI SSW OF CHISPA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Jeff Davis(county)

Texas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ninetysix Ranch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Livermore(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Marfa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Salt Basin(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande Closed Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande Closed Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Texas Jeff Davis

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Silver Primary
Barium-Barite Critical Primary
Tungsten Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Hollandite Ore
Fluorite Gangue
Hematite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result ANALYSIS BY HEWETT AND FLEISCHER (1960) INDICATED 48.8% MN, 17.8% BA, 0.63% WO3. WARREN (1946) REPORTED TRACES OF ZN AND PB IN THE ORE. BAKER (1934B) NOTED THAT TRAVERTINE STALACTITES IN A CAVE ABOUT 0.25 MI (0.4 KM) SOUTHWEST OF THE MN PROSPECT ASSAYED 4% PB, 2% ZN, AND A TRACE OF AG.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Loma Plata Limestone
    Rock description Loma Plata Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -104.77551, 30.72297
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mayfield Fault

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Mining district

District name Van Horn Mountains

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION: ONE CARLOAD OF HAND-PICKED ORE WITH 43% MN SHIPPED BEFORE 1935.

Comments on development

  • PROSPECTED BEFORE 1935.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PRICE, J. G., HENRY, C. D., AND STANDEN, A. R., 1983, ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MINERAL DEPOSITS IN TRANS-PECOS TEXAS: BUREAU OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY (TEXAS), MINERAL RESOURCE CIRCULAR NO. 73, 108 P.

  • Deposit

    HEWETT, D.F., 1960, DEPOSITS OF THE MANGANESE OXIDES: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 55, N. 1, P. 29.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    PRICE AND OTHERS, 1983

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS RECORD INCLUDES DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD D001355 BY JAMES E. ELLIOT (73 06) WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED.
Deposit VEIN ALONG MAYFIELD FAULT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1991 Paidakovich, Matthew E. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1992 Long, Keith R. U.S. Geological Survey

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