 | | Report (issue) | | X-ray Powder Pattern: Mariposa mine, Terlingua district, Brewster County, Texas, USA. 2.518 (100b), 4.063...06 2.27 100.00 (1) Mariposa mine, Terlingua district, Brewster County, Texas, USA.; average of 8 electron...cinnabar or native mercury as granular crusts. Association: Calcite (Mariposa mine); kleinite, calomel...calomel (McDermit Mine). Distribution: From the lower level of the Perry pit, Mariposa mine, Terlingua district...district, Brewster County, Texas, and the McDermit mine, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA. Name: Named after |  | 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...from the alteration of primary cinnabar or native mercury. At Terlingua, most crusts are thin, almost cryptocrystalline...(empirical formula). Material from the McDermitt mine § † E-mail address: aroberts@nrcan.gc.ca Deceased |  | | Journal (issue) | | locality); Japan; Norway; South Africa; Sweden; England; USA: Arizona, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri...Identify Mercury Minerals from Texas and Arkansas Art Smith artsmithite@msn.com Since coming to Texas in 1963...have had an interest in the Terlingua district mercury minerals but because many of them selfdestruct...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 |  | | 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...hydrothermal mercury deposit, the nitrogen likely derived from decaying organic matter (Mariposa mine, Texas...Texas, USA); in a mercury deposit in silicate–carbonate rock hydrothermally altered from serpentinite (Clear...claim, California, USA). Association: Cinnabar, terlinguaite, montroydite, mercury, calomel, hematite |  | Cooper, M. A., Abdu, Y. A., Hawthorne, F. C., Kampf, A. R. (2013) The crystal structure of comancheite, Hg2+55N3–24 (OH,NH2)4(Cl,Br)34, and crystal-chemical and spectroscopic discrimination of N3– and O2– anions in Hg2+ compounds. Mineralogical Magazine, 77 (8) 3217-3237 doi:10.1180/minmag.2013.077.8.13 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90007, USA [Received 22 June...spectrum, mercury nitride. Introduction COMANCHEITE is a secondary mineral from the Mariposa mine, Terlingua...Terlingua district, Brewster * E-mail: frank_hawthorne@umanitoba.ca DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2013.077.8.13 # 2013...2013 The Mineralogical Society County, Texas, USA, described by Roberts et al. (1981). It forms tiny...banded yellow-brown calcite. It was described as a mercury M. A. COOPER ET AL. rotating-anode generator |  | | Book | | JOE B. FRANTZ f $12.50 mercury production began in the Big Bend of Texas in the late 1800s, and by...suit brought against him by the adjacent Rainbow mine, he could boast that he had “paid them off with...life (and not in¬ frequently the private lives of mine employees) were dominated by Perry in the name of...could from the earth and the men who worked it, his mine brought jobs where there had been no jobs, a link...by Joe B. Frantz* - 1st ed. — College Station : Texas ASM University Press, cl976. xvAi» 327 p*, [8] leaves |  | Cooper, M. A., Abdu, Y. A., Hawthorne, F. C., Kampf, Anthony R. (2016) The crystal structure of gianellaite, [(NHg2)2](SO4)(H2O)x, a framework of (NHg4) tetrahedra with ordered (SO4) groups in the interstices. Mineralogical Magazine, 80 (5) 869-875 doi:10.1180/minmag.2016.080.028 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90007, USA [Received 4 June 2015;...Perry Pit of the Mariposa mine in the Terlingua District, Brewster County, Texas, USA, described by Tunell...Tunell to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, catalogue number 44159, and designated as type...Peresypkina, E.V. (2005) Crystal chemistry of mercury oxo- and chalcohalides. Crystallography Reviews...O4I2(Cl,Br)2, from the Clear Creek Claim, San Benito County, California. Mineralogical Magazine, 73, 227–234 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Jersey 08003 Copyright held by the author. THE MERCURY MINES OF TERLINGUA, TEXASBluefluorescing Calcite...fluorescent minerals is calcite from Terlingua, Texas, which fluoresces bright pink under longwave ultraviolet...calcite. For a long time, I had been hearing of the mercury mines of Terlingua where it is found and of the...Terlingua is some 300 miles southeast of El Paso, Texas, the nearest large U.S. city. From El Paso, the...2: Operating retort and furnace at a mercury mine, Terlingua, Texas (1927). Photo courtesy Archives of |  | | Journal (issue) | | MEXICO ................................ 302 BATOPILAS MINE FAMOUS FOR SILVER SFECIMENS........................ 302 UNUSUAL CALCITE CRYST ALS OF THE OLD MARIPOSA MINE. By Frank D :111c:1.11 ....•.••••••••.•••••••••••.... .. .......... ..... State Mineral Society of Texas ..................................................quartz veins and clay seams in a large hematite mine. The mine is worked open-cut and many of the miners save...in colorless crystals, also occur in the mine. Batopilas Mine Famous For Silver Specimens One of the world's |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | = 6.677(2) X-ray Powder Pattern: Terlingua, Texas, USA. 2.669 (10), 2.878 (8), 5.68 (7), 5.42 (6), 2...Total (1) 89.7 5.1 8.9 2.0 101.7 (1) Terlingua, Texas, USA; by electron microprobe, corresponding to Hg13...Occurrence: A secondary mineral in an oxidized mercury deposit. Association: Calcite, goethite, hematite... Distribution: From the Mariposa mine, Terlingua, Brewster Co., Texas, USA. Name: For the Comanche...Comanche Indians, the first miners of the mercury deposits in which this mineral occurs. Type Material: Canadian |  | | Journal (issue) | | described from slags at Le Celine di Cotoriano Mine (Rosia, Siena Province, Tuscany, Italy). I have...aesthetic end we saw the best stibnite from Xikuangshan Mine (Lengshuijiang, Shaoyang, Hunan Province, China)...on the This year, giYe the gift of information! Mine al The Mineral Collector's Mineral News, The Mineral...finds from China, helvite from Tongbei (Yunxiao County, Fujiao, China) and gibbsite from "Hunan". The...science - I too sit in an ivory tower. At least mine has a foundation. ----6 Collectors' Cases I always |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Terlingua mining district is situatedin Brewster County, Texas, in sight of the Rio Grande and about 8o...Pacific rail- road. The district and its depositsof mercury minerals have already been describedin a number...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 19:59 08 January 2015 Near Lovelock, Pershing County, Nevada U ntil what seems like only a few years...in many countries as the major ore mineral of mercury. It is found as a primary mineral in shallow hydrothemal...a supergene mineral in the uppermost parts of mercury-bearing systems. A comprehensive bibliography by...by Ebner (1954)on the geology and supply of mercury for the period 1811-1953 is recommended as a starting...occurrences. America has been an important consumer of mercury since the development of precious-metal mining |  | | 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 |  | Cooper, Mark A., Hawthorne, Frank C., Roberts, Andrew C., Stanley, Christopher J., Spratt, John, Christy, Andrew G. (2019) Gaildunningite, ideally Hg2+3[NHg2+2]18(Cl,I)24, a new mineral from the Clear Creek Mine, San Benito County, California, USA: description and crystal structure. The Canadian Mineralogist, 57 (3) 295-310 doi:10.3749/canmin.1800080 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NEW MINERAL FROM THE CLEAR CREEK MINE, SAN BENITO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, USA: DESCRIPTION AND CRYSTAL STRUCTURE...the Clear Creek mine, New Idria mining district, San Benito County, California, USA. It is orthorhombic...been responsible for the discovery of many new mercury-bearing minerals. § Corresponding author e-mail...MINERALOGIST Keywords: gaildunningite, new mineral, mercury-nitride-chloride-iodide, crystal-structure refinement...Hg–N bond-valence parameters, Clear Creek mine, San Benito County, California. DEDICATION This work is dedicated |  | | | | O4I2(Cl,Br)2, from the Clear Creek Claim, San Benito County, California M. A. COOPER AND F. C. HAWTHORNE*...tedhadleyite, crystal structure, mercury mineral, San Benito County, California. Introduction TEDHADLEYITE...long-abandoned Clear Creek mercury mine, New Idria district, San Benito County, California (Roberts et al...al., 2002). It is associated with native mercury, calomel and traces of cinnabar, eglestonite and montroydite...it formed as an in situ replacement of native mercury during a period of high activity of I (with lower |  | | Journal (issue) | | Edgarbaileyite, the first known silicate of mercury, from California and Texas ...................................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 (issue) | | ...................................... 3 Other Texas Minerals Obtained from the Philadelphia Academy...schools who are interested. We would divide Harris County into something like 6 or 8 divisions and then find...address is: Terry Proctor, 630 Uvalde Road, Houston, Texas 770153766. My law office phone is (713) 453-8338...interest with you—and without raising the dues. Other Texas Minerals Obtained from the Philadelphia Academy...in the article about Baringer Hill in Llano County, Texas (Smith 2008), I described and discussed specimens |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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) | | Mining & Mineral Museum MARIPOSA, CALIFORNIA JOEL A. BARTSCH P.O. Box 1192 Mariposa, California 95338 Figures...California State Mining and Mineral Museum in Mariposa, California. Joel A . Bartsch is the curator...Borchard, the Mariposa County planner, submitted a proposal to move the collection to Mariposa because of...of Sacramento, the collection was leased to Mariposa County with the condition that it be displayed in...countless individuals, the collection was relocated to Mariposa. Located at the southern end of the Mother Lode |
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Mariposa Mine, Brewster County, Texas, USA