Pickens Oil prospect (La Escondida prospect), Brewster County, Texas, USAi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Pickens Oil prospect (La Escondida prospect) | Prospect |
| Brewster County | County |
| Texas | State |
| USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
29° 22' 50'' North , 103° 45' 22'' West
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Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Study Butte | 233 (2011) | 22.9km |
| Manuel Benavides | 916 (2014) | 33.7km |
| Álamos de San Antonio | 131 (2013) | 49.8km |
Alteration: Silicification
Deposit: Cinnabar disseminated in silicified rock along the margins of a solution-collapse breccia pipe.
Development: Prospected in late 1960's.
Geology: Clasts of del rio clay, buda limestone, and ash-flo W tuff occur in a solution-collapse sink within the santa elena limestone at this locality. Cinnabar occurs in silicified rocks along the margins of the sink. A previously-described multicolored jasperoid 'dike' is a zone of hydrothermal silicification along the margin of another sink.
Rock formation(s): Intrusion
Santa Elena Limestone
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| ⓘ Cinnabar Formula: HgS Reference: Texas Bureau of Environment and Geology Mineral Resources Circular 73. |
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| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
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| ⓘ | Cinnabar | 2.CD.15a | HgS |
References
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Year (asc) Year (desc) Author (A-Z) Author (Z-A)Price, J. G., Henry, C. D., and Standen, A. R., (1983), Annotated Bibliography of Mineral Deposits in Trans-pecos Texas: Bureau of Economic Geology (texas), Mineral Resource Circular No. 73, 108 P
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