| 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: | -103.55222, 29.47333 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 762 |
| Relative position | 11 MI (18 KM) NE OF TERLINGUA |
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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Texas | Brewster |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Mercury | Primary |
| Uranium | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Carnotite | Ore |
| Cinnabar | Ore |
| Calcite | Gangue |
| Gypsum | Gangue |
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Trachyandesite | ||||||
| |||||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone |
| Rock unit name | Santa Elena |
| Rock description | Santa Elena |
| (1) | -103.55222, 29.47333 |
|---|
| Strike | N 45 E |
|---|---|
| Dip | 75 NW |
| Operation type | Underground |
|---|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| District name | Adobe Walls District |
|---|
| Type of mineral rights | Private Lease |
|---|
| Ownership category | Private |
|---|
| Type | Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | Armstrong Minerals, Inc. |
| Type of workings | Underground |
|---|---|
| Name of workings | 3 30- ft shafts |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | D002468 | |
| Defense Mineral Exploration Agency | DMEA | DMEA | 3787 | |
| Office of Mineral Exploration | OME | OME | 6195 | |
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 480430010 | =newMRDS 10178825, merged and deleted. |
U OF TEXAS, BULL 3401, US B MINES R.I. 3995
CHESTER, J.W., 1965, MERCURY IN TEXAS: USBM IC 8252
TX BEG MRC-73, P. 25.
DOE OFR GJBX-29(80)
CIMRI
YATES R G AND G A THOMPSON, 1959, GEOLOGY AND QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS OF THE TERLINGUA DISTRICT, TEXAS: USGS PP-312.
| 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. |
| 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 |
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