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Mills Ranch Mine

Past Producer in Val Verde county in Texas, United States with commodity Manganese
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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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10062658
MRDS ID TC36196
Record type Site
Current site name Mills Ranch Mine
Related records 10300133

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -101.58374, 30.17993 (WGS84)
Relative position 3 MI SW OF PANDALE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Val Verde(county)

Texas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pandale(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Devils Draw(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Sonora(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Pecos(hydrologic unit)

Lower Pecos(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Pecos(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Texas Val Verde

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrolusite Ore
Wad Ore

Analytical data

Result ORE: 38.30% MNO2, 47.11% CACO3, 4.46% SIO2, 2.06% AL2O3, TRACE FE2O3.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pleistocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) Edwards Limestone
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Thickness 0.61M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Mills

Comments on the production information

  • TWO CARLOADS SHIPPED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PUBLICATION 4301, P. 249-254

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    UNIV. TEX. PUB. 4301, P. 252.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1992 Long, Keith U.S. Geological Survey

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

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