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Tarrant Property in Sec. 18

Past Producer 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Ownership information
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10400657
Record type Site
Current site name Tarrant Property in Sec. 18

Comments on the site identification

  • Listed in MRC-73, p. 23, but does not readily correspond to entries in prior publications on the district such as Yates and Johnson (USGS PP-312) or Chester (USBM IC-8252, Ch. 10).

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Approximate
Geographic coordinates: -103.67944, 29.31817 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position Coordinates in MRC-73 are llisted as "approximate".

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Brewster(county)

Texas(state)

United States(country)

USGS map quadrangles

Amarilla Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Chisos Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Emory Peak(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Texas Brewster

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Calcite Gangue
Clay Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

Approximate (1) Buda Limestone and Del Rio Clay, undivided
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Production years 1933-1934

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Tarrant
    Year 1983

Comments on the workings information

  • Abandoned mine.

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: [Texas] Bureau of Economic Geology, Mineral Resource Circular 73, 108 p.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 2012-11-06 Wilson, Anna B. U.S. Geological Survey

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