 | | Journal (issue) | | locality); Japan; Norway; South Africa; Sweden; England; USA: Arizona, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri...Mercury Minerals from Texas and Arkansas Art Smith artsmithite@msn.com Since coming to Texas in 1963 I have...microscopic crystals. Most of them come from the Mariposa mine which was the original town site for Terlingua...miles eastward to be near the Chisos mine after the Marfa Mariposa mining company shut down in 1910 (Ragsdale...today but there is even less remaining at the Mariposa mine except an open pit and some underground workings |  | Roberts, A. C., Gault, R. A., Paar, W. H., Cooper, M. A., Hawthorne, F. C., Burns, P. C., Cisneros, S., Foord, E. E. (2005) Terlinguacreekite, Hg2+3O2Cl2, a new mineral species from the Perry Pit, Mariposa Mine, Terlingua Mining District, Brewster County, Texas, U.S.A. The Canadian Mineralogist, 43 (3) 1055-1060 doi:10.2113/gscanmin.43.3.1055 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | FROM THE PERRY PIT, MARIPOSA MINE, TERLINGUA MINING DISTRICT, BREWSTER COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. ANDREW C....of the Perry pit, Mariposa mine, Terlingua mining district, Brewster County, Texas (type locality), as...has also been identified at the McDermitt mine, Humboldt County, Nevada, U.S.A., where it occurs with kleinite...(empirical formula). Material from the McDermitt mine § † E-mail address: aroberts@nrcan.gc.ca Deceased...Perry pit, Mariposa mine, Terlingua mining district, Brewster County, Texas, McDermitt mine, Humboldt |  | | Report (issue) | | 9.5215(5) Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Mariposa mine, Texas, USA. 2.872 (10), 2.743 (10), 5.511 (8), 2...37 3.02 86.61 Total 95.2 100.00 (1) Mariposa mine, Texas, USA; by separate microchemical analyses on...derived from decaying organic matter (Mariposa mine, Texas, USA); in a mercury deposit in silicate–carbonate...(Clear Creek claim, California, USA). Association: Cinnabar, terlinguaite, montroydite, mercury, calomel...calcite (Mariposa mine, Texas, USA). Distribution: In the USA, from the Perry pit, Mariposa mine, Terlingua |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Terlingua mining district is situatedin Brewster County, Texas, in sight of the Rio Grande and about 8o...completeof thesepublicationsis Bulletin No. 4 of the Texas State Mineral Survey, Dr. W. B. Phillips, director...the above formations is by Robert T. Hill and the Texas Mineral Survey. TERLINGU•I QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS...superintendentof the Big Bend mine, for the following analysisof the mine water. This analysiswas madeby...Chicago,W. A. Converse,analyst. ANALYSIS OF Bm BEND MINE WATER. Grains in One Gallon. Silica ......... |  | | Journal (issue) | | known silicate of mercury, from California and Texas ........................................ 215 by...Laflamme Famous mineral localities: Terlingua, Texas ................................... 221 by M . Origlieri...Schacht (who was bom Horace Greele} Schacht in the USA), President of the German Reichsbank. In du< course...overall light smoky shade, and one from Saline County, Arkansas, failed to turn color at all. Crystals...“Hot Springs area” * “Hot Springs area” Lincoln County Veta Grande Claim, Yuma Co. Arkansas Arkansas |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Texas mineral locality INDEX Whereas Texas is well known for its vastness, cattle industry, and oil...I T S T O P O G R A P H Y A N D G E O L O G Y , Texas, the second largest state, has produced relatively...famous localities. A s this article will show, Texas has had—or currently has—nu merous mineral occurrences...produce good specimens; yet when specimens from Texas are sought in collections and dealers' stocks, few...some basic facts that help explain the situation. Texas has very little federal land in its mineralized |  | | | | O4I2(Cl,Br)2, from the Clear Creek Claim, San Benito County, California M. A. COOPER AND F. C. HAWTHORNE*...crystal structure, mercury mineral, San Benito County, California. Introduction TEDHADLEYITE, ideally...long-abandoned Clear Creek mercury mine, New Idria district, San Benito County, California (Roberts et al.,...Mixed Hg+/Hg2+ minerals. Formula Deanesmithite Terlinguaite Aurivilliusite CCUK-15 Wattersite Hanawaltite...Manual 5.1, Bruker AXS Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Cooper, M.A. and Hawthorne, F.C. (2003) The crystal |  | | Report (issue) | | Quicksilver Deposits of the Terlingua District Texas GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 312 Geology...Quicksilver Deposits of the Terlingua District Texas By ROBERT G. YATES and GEORGE A. THOMPSON G E 0...quicksilver deposits of the Terlingua district, Texas, by Robert G. Yates and George A. Thompson. Washington... 1. Geology-Texas-Terlingua district. 2. Mercury ores. 3. Mercury mines and mining-Texas-Terlingua district...Aguja pipe _____________ ___________ _ 41 Chisos mine pipe __________________ _ 42 Other breccia pipes |  | Hillebrand, W. F., Schaller, W. T. (1907) THE MERCURY MINERALS FROM TERLINGUA, TEXAS: KLEINITE, TERLINGUAITE, EGLESTONITE, MONTROYDITE, CALOMEL, MERCURY.1. Journal Of The American Chemical Society, 29 (8) 1180-1194 doi:10.1021/ja01962a005 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE MERCURY MINERALS FROM TERLINGUA, TEXAS: KLEINITE, TERLINGUAITE, EGLESTONITE, MONTROYDITE, CALOMEL,...Terlingua, Texas, specinieiis of two minerals from t h e well known Terlingua mercury field in Brewster county...mercury iniuerals from that district, iianiely terlinguaite, eglestonite and montroydite, the last of these...clayey gangue, only once or twice accompanied by terlinguaite; calomel with calcite, mercury and eglestonite...montroydite with calcite, terlinguaite, and mercury on the calcite layer; terlinguaite with calcite, montroydite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | reported from the Carlsbad area, New Mexico and also Texas. In Canada carnallite has been reported from Saskatchewan...under lw followed by a strong phosphorescence. TERLINGUAITE — From the now defunct but still famous mercury...mercury deposits in the Big Bend country of Texas comes a variety of mercury minerals, some of which fl...fl. very nicely. Named after the district, terlinguaite is an oxychloride of mercury. The natural color...material. Terlinguaite occurs in the limestone-clay contact deposits of the Mariposa mine as well as |  | | Journal (issue) | | l-:e Terl ingua Qu icksilver District of Brewster County, Texas. By Frank Duncan . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 Some Mine rals o f the Gillette Quarry, Haddam Neck, Conn...of dollars expended in useless effort to work a mine for gold whose chief ore is ordinary pyrite. A story...brothers who were sadly fooled by pyrite at an old iron mine in Putnam Co., N. Y., many years ago. A lot of pyrite...pyrite was uncovered at that time when the mine was in operation, and the material was carefully placed |  | | Report (volume) | | possibilities at the New Almaden quicksilver mine, Santa Clara County, Calif.: U. S. Geol. Survey open-file...1952, Eleven maps of the New Almaden quicksilver mine area: U. S. Geol. Survey open-file rept., no text...L., 1949, The New Almaden quicksilver mine, Santa Clara County, Calif.: U. S. Geol. Survey open-file...Reconnaissance of the ore deposits in northern Yuma County, Ariz.: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 451, p. 44-45...deposits of the BonanzaNonpareil district, Douglas County, Oreg.: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 955-F, p. 225-251 |  | | Report (volume) | | DIRECTOR 4:05 THE MERCURY MINERALS FROM TERLINGUA, TEXAS BY W. F. HILLEBRAND AND W. T. SCHALLER WASHINGTON........................... 7 8 8 9 10 10 10 Terlinguaite. ..................................... ^.........................................:.... 78 Terlinguaite................................................................ V. Gnomonic projection of terlinguaite forms......................... VI. Gnomonic....... 23. Terlinguaite crystal 1 .......................................... 24. Terlinguaite crystal 3 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | OF THE TERLINGUA REGION, CLYDE TEXAS. • P. ROSS. ABSTRACT. Texas is secondamongquicksilver-producing...interest both because this small area has long kept Texas secondamongthe quicksilver-producing States andbecause...solu- QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN TERLINGUA REGION, TEXAS. 117 tions are so dilute and circulateat suchcomparativelylow...given. LOCATION. All of the quicksilverminesin Texas lie within what is sometimes termed the Terlingua...•. Map of partsof BrewsterandPresidioCounties, Texas,show- ing the locationand extent of the Terlinguaand |  | | Report (issue) | | OF MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES ALLANITE Inyo County: 1, Coarse grained allanite occurs in a pegmatite...quadrangle, McAllister (4) p. 52. Los Angeles County: Additional reference, Patchick (2) p. 237. This...diagrams. 1, AMPHIBOLES ACTINOLITE San Bernardino County: 3, Additional Wrightwood, reported by Berkholz...locality in alluvium, near 21. HORNBLENDE Inyo County: 1, In large prismatic crystals up to 2.5 inches...Panamint Range, McAllister (4) p. 52. San Bernardino County: 2, Pargasite variety of hornblende occurs in coarsely |  | Hazen, R. M., Golden, J., Downs, R. T., Hystad, G., Grew, E. S., Azzolini, D., Sverjensky, D. A. (2012) Mercury (Hg) mineral evolution: A mineralogical record of supercontinent assembly, changing ocean geochemistry, and the emerging terrestrial biosphere. American Mineralogist, 97 (7) 1013-1042 doi:10.2138/am.2012.3922 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | dumbbells in a framework arrangement, whereas in terlinguaite {[Hg1+][Hg2+]OCl} the Hg6O2 clusters are linked...Petrovicite Cu3HgPbBiSe5 BO01, CZ03, CZ04, MX03 416 18 Terlinguaite [Hg1+][Hg2+]OCl AT02, DE02, KG01, KG02, MX03...the New Almadén mine in Santa Clara County and the New Idria mine in San Benito County (two of the world’s...1996), central Arizona (Eastoe et al. 1990), west Texas (Thompson 1954; Henry et al. 1997), and southwest...literature. For example, the Hg mining district of Pike County, Arkansas, is hosted in Carboniferous sediments |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Abbreviations: (Dst.) district, area; (Co.) county; (m.) mine; (Mf.) massif; (Q.) quarry; (N) north, northern...(43°53`N, 103°25`W), Pennington Co., South Dakota, USA \\1974perloffite;…1984sinkankasite 8 – Big Creek...Trimmer (36°54`N, 119°17 `W), Fresno Co., California, USA \\1965fresnoite; …2001kampfite 4 – Big Fish River...\(31°26`N, 109°55`W) (area), Cochise Co., Arizona, USA \\1891paramelaconite;…1983henryite 22 – Black Hills...103°25`W); Pennington\ Custer Co., South Dakota, USA \\1891griphite;…1989pararobertsite 7 – Bon Accord |  | | Report (volume) | | .......Mr. George H. Ashley, Washington, D. C. Texas............Dr. William B. Phillips, Austin. Vermont...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby |  | | Report (volume) | | 248 259 269 271 275 281 r 4 CONTENTS. Page. Texas...................................................New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas; to list all the literature consulted would be impracticable...Phillips, W. B., The mineral resources of Texas: Univ. Texas Bull. 365, Sci. Ser. 29, 1914. Among other...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Paao ama, Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District...District Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite, leadhillite...Quartz, 14.2 cm across, Newbeny Mountains,Clark County. Steve Scott specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...Clinotyrolite spray, 3.4 mm across, Lovelock mine, Churchill County. Figure 2 (bottom). Wulfenite, 1.1 mm high...high, Chalk Mountain, Churchill County. Dan Behnke specimens and photos. Hot Springs Iron meteorite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino... 317 by B. Cairncross The Clear Creek mine, San Benito County, California: A unique mercury locality... 4.9 cm, from O Stope, 31st Level of the Tsumeb mine, Namibia. William Pinch collection; Jeff Scovil...The Sulfur Hole, Calico District, San Bernardino County, California. Axis, volume 1, number 5, pages 1–14... in the O stope on the 31st level of the Tsumeb mine, by Hannes Schoombie, who was at that time working |  | | Journal (issue) | | September-October 201✓ Mineral Collections in Texas A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record September-October...those found in neighboring Arizona and New Mexico; Texas is oil country, and many fortunes have been made... but all are worthy of study and appreciation. Texas collections generally tend tobe very broad in scope...collecting in Texas today has already been weil demonstrated by the Mineralogical Record's first Texas supplement...minerals that are preserved in Texas collections. Presented here in the second Texas supplement are another 811 |  | | Catalog/List | | FAXYOUR ORDER OR INQUIRY TO: INTER-USA: 408-926-6015 NON-USA: ( • )-l-408-926-6015 CALL TOPLACE ORDERS:...1/2" thick. $28.50 A 4042AGUILARITE - San Carlos Mine, Municipio de Guandjuato, State of Guanaju...P. Aguilar, the superintendent of the San Carlos Mine, the locality from which the mineral was originally...4043AIKINITEin QUARTZ - CucomungoSpring, Esmeralda County, Nevada - Aikinite, PbCuBiS3, is available from...AIKINITEin QUARTZ - Cuc01111ngo Spring, Esmeralda County, Nevada - Continued gray platy inasses of Molybdenite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Archerite occurs with biphosphammite, NHoH,pOn, (Am. Mine r a l . , 5 8 , p . 8 0 6 ) a n d o t h e r p h...e i n copper-rich pods in the Fletcher Mine, Reynolds County, S.E M i s s o u r i . T h e n a m e i s...Gianellaite, a new mercury mineral. Neues Jahrb Mine r a l , M o n a t s h . ,I l 9 - 1 3 1 . M i c r...in the Mariposa Mine, Terlingua district, Brewster County, Texas, associated with terlinguaite, calomel |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | compounds of mercurammonite and hydromercury (terlinguaite, kleinite, mossite) have been encountered, and...deposits of China, Huancavelica in Peru, the Chisos, Mariposa and other deposits in the United States. Bodies...California: New Almaden, New Idria, etc. (U.S.A.) 5 - Texas: Terlingua, Marysvale, etc. (U.S.A.) 6 - Kansas:...(the Pfalz ore district) and, possibly, those of Texas in the United States. Central Asia). Deposits of...in the states of Oregon, California, Nevada and Texas, within the Pacific Ocean ore belt, and associated |
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Mariposa Mine, Brewster County, Texas, USA