| Deposit ID | 10098450 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | M054815 |
| MAS/MILS ID | 483770007 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Contrabando Dome Mine |
| Alternate or previous names | Contrabando Dome Prospects |
| Point of reference | Approximate |
|---|---|
| Geographic coordinates: | -103.8186, 29.3194 (WGS84) |
| Elevation | 823 |
| Location accuracy | 2000(meters) |
| Relative position | 5 MI NNW OF LAJITAS. There should be several prospect locations. Uncertain which one this is, or if it is even close. |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Presidio(county)
Texas(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Lajitas(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Chisos Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Emory Peak(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Black Hills-Fresno(hydrologic unit)
Rio Grande-Amistad(hydrologic accounting unit)
Rio Grande-Amistad(hydrologic subregion)
Rio Grande(hydrologic region)
Federal lands
ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Texas | Presidio |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Mercury | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Cinnabar | Ore |
| Calcite | Gangue |
| Pyrite | Gangue |
| Host or associated | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite | ||
| |||
| Approximate (1) | -103.8186, 29.3194 |
|---|
| General form | IRREGULAR |
|---|---|
| Depth to top | 0M |
| Operation type | Surface-Underground |
|---|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1935 |
| Discoverer | Harris S. Smith And Homer M. Wilson |
| Production years | 1943 |
| District name | Terlingua |
|---|
| Ownership category | Private |
|---|
| Type | Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | Harris S. Smith And Homer M. Wilson , B.L. Shoemaker , Big Bend Mining Co. |
| First year | 1930 |
| Last year | 1957 |
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Harris S. Smith And Homer M. Wilson |
| Year | 1960 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | To 1960 | ||||||||||||||
| Material | HG | ||||||||||||||
| Accuracy | Estimate | ||||||||||||||
| Description | Cp_Grade: ^10-20 Lb/Ton | ||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
| Type of workings | Surface/Underground |
|---|---|
| Length | 6.1M |
| Overall depth | 18.29M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | M054815 | |
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 483770007 | = newMRDS 10299996 |
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | W054815 | May be a typo of the MRDS #? |
CHESTER, J. W., 1965, MERCURY IN TEXAS: USBM IC 8252
EVANS, A.M. AND TRAVER, W.M., JR., 1947, TERLINGUA MERCURY DEPOSIT, BREWSTER AND PRESIDIO COUNTIES, TEXAS: USBM RI 3995
TX BEG MRC-73, P. 25.
1956 DIREXPL DMEA
EXAMINED BY CLYDE P. ROSS AND OTHERS, 1934
EXAMINED BY ROBERT G. YATES, J.F. MCALLISTER, AND GEORGE A. THOMPSON, 1942-1945.
CIMRI
USBM DATA
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | THIS RECORD INCLUDES INFORMATION FROM DUPLICATE RECORD D002535 BY WILLIAM J. HASLER (77 05) WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED. |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 1976-09-01 | Peterson, Jocelyn A. | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Updater | 1992-09-01 | Long, Keith R. | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Editor | 2012-10-30 | Wilson, Anna B | U.S. Geological Survey | merged and deleted duplicate record 10299996 |
| Reporter | 1983-11-18 | Garner | U.S. Bureau of Mines | MAS 0483770007 |
Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.