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Purple Sage Mine

Past Producer in Hudspeth county in Texas, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Copper, Zinc
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  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 10085801
MRDS ID W701453
Record type Site
Current site name Purple Sage Mine
Alternate or previous names Lone Star, Duke's
Related records 10300479

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.02634, 30.74935 (WGS84)
Relative position 23 MI (37 KM) SSW OF VAN HORN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hudspeth(county)

Texas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bramlett Ranch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Indian Hot Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Marfa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cibolo-Red Light(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 Hudspeth

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chrysocolla Ore
Hemimorphite Ore
Malachite Ore
Mimetite Ore
Mottramite Ore
Pyromorphite Ore
Vanadinite Ore
Wulfenite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Goethite Gangue

Analytical data

Result ASSAYS INDICATE SUBSTANTIAL AG.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 197
USGS model code 30b
Deposit model name Sediment-hosted Cu
Mark3 model number 63

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate
    Rock unit name Yucca Formation
    Rock description Yucca Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.02634, 30.74935
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE SHAFT APPARENTLY WAS SUNK 175 FT (53 M) ON A NARROW VEIN OF ARGENTIFEROUS GALENA. LITTLE MALACHITE AND AZURITE OCCUR IN THE DUMP FROM THIS SHAFT. CU-PB-ZN MINERALIZATION IN THE PIT FOLLOWS BEDDING. WULFENITE OCCURS MOSTLY ALONG A FRACTURE. COPPER MINERALS AND LIMONITE OCCUR ON TOP OF MOST OF THE PB AND ZN MINERALS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Indio Mountains

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION: TWO CARLOADS OF ORE VALUED AT $20,000 REPORTED.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • RESOURCES AND GRADE: PROBABLY SMALL RESOURCES, BUT LOCALLY HIGH GRADES.

Comments on development

  • PROSPECTED BEFORE-1950 (PIT) AND EARLY 1950'S (SHAFT).

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

    TX BEG RI 145

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    PRICE AND OTHERS, 1983

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PROBABLY FRACTURE-RELATED, BUT NOT OBVIOUSLY VEINED.

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

Beyond USGS

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

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