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Colquitt Tigner Mine

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. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103766
MRDS ID M054810
Record type Site
Current site name Colquitt Tigner Mine
Alternate or previous names Waldron, Colquit-Tigner Quicksilver
Related records 10130184

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -103.66611, 29.33111 (WGS84)
Elevation 975
Relative position 3 MI W OF TERLINGUA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Brewster(county)

Texas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Amarilla 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 SEC 38, BLK G-12

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calomel Ore
Cinnabar Ore
Calcite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -103.66611, 29.33111
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Solution Collapse At The Top Of The Santa Elena Limestone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1925
Year of last production 1934
Production years 1925-27, 1934

Mining district

District name Terlingua

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Waldron Quicksilver Properties
    First year 1926
    Last year 1936

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 274.32M
  • Type of workings Underground
    Name of workings 900 ft of drifts, stopes

Comments on the workings information

  • A MAIN ADIT WITH 900 FT OF DRIFTS CONNECTED TO SURFACE BY SHAFTS AND CUTS.

Comments on development

  • MINE REOPENED IN 1916.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Location

    COUNTY HIGHWAY MAPS

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E. H., USGS PERSONAL FILES

  • Deposit

    USGS PP 312

  • Deposit

    TX BEG MRC-73, P. 23.

  • Deposit

    FIELD WORK BY C.P. ROSS AND OTHERS, 193

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    USBM DATA

Reporter information

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 2012-10-26 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted duplicate record.
Reporter 1983-11-18 Rlw U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0480430018

Beyond USGS

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