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Pyle Prospect

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103778
MRDS ID M055094
MAS/MILS ID 51061000
Record type Site
Current site name Pyle Prospect
Alternate or previous names Will Pyle Prospect
Related records 10184205

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Approximate
Geographic coordinates: -93.82222, 34.15523 (WGS84)
Elevation 155
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 7 MI NW OF MURFREESBORO. Coordinates are for SESE Sec. 12.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Howard(county)

Arkansas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Center Point NE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Arkadelphia(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Little Rock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Little Missouri(hydrologic unit)

Upper Ouachita(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Red-Ouachita(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Mississippi(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arkansas Howard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
5th Principal 007S 027W 12,13 Arkansas

Comments on the location information

  • Original coordinates at 34-9-10, -93-49-27, or about 500 m to the SSW, plotted in NENE Sec 13. Coordinates given are from deleted MAS record because they coincide with the described section.
  • initially in SESESec. 12 and NENE sec. 13 T7S, R27W, in Howard Co. Expanded into NWNWsec. 18, T7S, R26 W in Pike County sometime after 1934. (Clardy and Bush, 1976, p. 19)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Barite Gangue
Dickite Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian

Nearby scientific data

Approximate (1) -93.82222, 34.15523
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Thrust Faults, Close Folds
Type of structure Regional
Structure description Thrust Faults, N-S Tear Faults, And Two Fold Systems ; Reg.Trends: Thrust Faults From S In Late Paleozoic

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faults In Sandstone And Sharp Folds

Comments on the geologic information

  • SANDSTONE IS FRACTURED AND LOCALLY BRECCIATED. SANDSTONE BEDS STRIKE N49E, SHALES STRIKE N36E DIP 85E TO N62E DIP 90.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1931-1946

Mining district

District name Arkansas Quicksilver District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner William Pyle
    Year 1965
  • Type Operator
    Owner C. E. Holmes, C. Q. Schow

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS IN 1937 WERE TRENCH 40 FT. LONG, 10 FT. DEEP. TWO PITS, ONE 20 FT. DEEP, ONE 10 FT. DEEP. LAST ACTIVE 1934.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Reed and Wells, 1938, USGS BULL. 886-C

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E. H., USGS, PERSONAL FILES

  • Deposit

    Chester, 1965, USBM IC-8252, p. 85.

  • Production

    USBM DATA

  • Deposit

    THOENEN, ARK MINERAL BOOK

  • Deposit

    Brown, W.F., et al., 1955, Mineral resources of Ark in the Red River Basin.

  • Deposit

    Clardy, B.F., and Bush, W.V., 1976, Mercury district of southwest Arkansas: Arkansas Geological Commission Information Circular 23, 57 p.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1973-10-01 Bergquist, Joel R. U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 2012-11-16 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted duplicate record 10184205
Editor 1983-11-17 Reynolds U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0050610003 = 10184205

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

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