Adobe Walls Mine

Past Producer in Brewster county in Texas, United States with commodities Mercury, Uranium
Sections on this page
  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. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Mineral rights holdings
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10009455
MRDS ID D002468
MAS/MILS ID 480430010
Record type Site
Current site name Adobe Walls Mine
Alternate or previous names Whittaker Claims, Twenty-One Mine, Armstrong Materials Inc. Prospect, Adobe Walls
Related records 10178825

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -103.55222, 29.47333 (WGS84)
Elevation 762
Relative position 11 MI (18 KM) NE OF TERLINGUA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Brewster(county)

Texas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hen Egg Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Chisos Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Emory Peak(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Terlingua(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 Brewster

Comments on the location information

  • IN SECTION 6, BLOCK G-11

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Uranium Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • CARNOTITE ALSO PRESENT

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Cinnabar Ore
Calcite Gangue
Gypsum Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Trachyandesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Santa Elena
    Rock description Santa Elena

Nearby scientific data

(1) -103.55222, 29.47333

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 45 E
    Dip 75 NW

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ne Trending Breccia Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Adobe Walls District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Private Lease

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Armstrong Minerals, Inc.

Comments on the production information

  • NO MORE THAN A FEW FLASKS OF HG PRODUCED

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Name of workings 3 30- ft shafts

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U OF TEXAS, BULL 3401, US B MINES R.I. 3995

  • Deposit

    CHESTER, J.W., 1965, MERCURY IN TEXAS: USBM IC 8252

  • Deposit

    TX BEG MRC-73, P. 25.

  • Deposit

    DOE OFR GJBX-29(80)

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Deposit

    YATES R G AND G A THOMPSON, 1959, GEOLOGY AND QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS OF THE TERLINGUA DISTRICT, TEXAS: USGS PP-312.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BRECCIA ZONE TRENDING N45E, DIPPING 75NW
Deposit THIS RECORD REPLACES DUPLICATE MRDS RECORD NO. M054795 (76/09) BY JOCELYN A. PETERSON.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1977-04-01 Hasler, J. William U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 1992-10-01 Long, Keith R. U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 2012-10-26 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted duplicate record
Reporter 1983-11-18 Garner U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0480430010 = newMRDS 10178825

Beyond USGS

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