Description
Local Ranchers
Commodities
PrimaryMercury
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit sizeM
WorkingsUnderground
Orebody formIRREGULAR
Ore controlSolution Collapse Along Santa Elena Limestone-Del Rio Clay Contact And Solution Collapse Breccia Pipes; Ne Trending Faults And Fractures
Materials
Ore mineralsCinnabar
GangueCalcite, Clay, Gypsum, Marcasite, Pyrite
Geology
Host rockShale,Limestone,Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate) · Santa Elena Shale;Del Rio;Buda;Boquillas
Associated rockLatite
StructureAsymmetric Terlingua Anticline
AlterationDeuteric Alteration Of Soda Latite? Sills, Kaolinization Of Del Rio Clay
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Production years1903-37, 1943
First production1903
Last production1943
Discovery year1897
Identification
Deposit ID10040391
MRDS IDM055147
Alternate namesMcKinney Parker Claims, Chisos Mining Co., Chisos Quicksilver Mine, Mc Kinney-Parker
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates29.31806, -103.62
References
BAILEY, E.H., USGS, PERSONAL FILES.CHESTER, J.W., 1965, MERCURY IN TEXAS: USBM IC 8252USGS PP 312TX BEG MRC-73, P. 19.1943 DIREXPL USBM, ONLY ONE DRILL HOLE PENETRATED LOW GRADE OREFIELD WORK BY C.P. ROSS AND OTHERS, 1934.FIELD WORK BY R.G. YATES, J.F. MCALLISTER, AND G.A. THOMPSON, 1942-45.Bailey, E.H., 1962, Mercury in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Investigations Resource Map MR-30, 8 p. pamphlet, scale 1:3,168,000.CIMRI(1) USBM DATA (2) CHISOS MINING CO. DATA