Mine detail: Contrabando Dome Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 29.31773, -103.81436

Resource(M)

Primary: Mercury
Ore: Cinnabar
Gangue: Calcite, Pyrite
Orebody form: IRREGULAR
Discovery year: 1935

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
Production years: 1943

Geology

Host type:Rhyolite

References

MRDSM054815
DEP10098450
Reference{Deposit:: CHESTER, J. W., 1965, MERCURY IN TEXAS: USBM IC 8252}{Deposit:: EVANS, A.M. AND TRAVER, W.M., JR., 1947, TERLINGUA MERCURY DEPOSIT, BREWSTER AND PRESIDIO COUNTIES, TEXAS: USBM RI 3995}{Deposit:: YATES, R.G. AND THOMPSON, G.A., 1959, GEOLOGY AND QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS, TERLINGUA DISTRICT, TEXAS: USGS PROF. PAPER 312, 114 P.}{Deposit:: TX BEG MRC-73, P. 25.}{Deposit:: 1956 DIREXPL DMEA}{Deposit:: EXAMINED BY CLYDE P. ROSS AND OTHERS, 1934}{Deposit:: EXAMINED BY ROBERT G. YATES, J.F. MCALLISTER, AND GEORGE A. THOMPSON, 1942-1945.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}{Production:: USBM DATA}
ReporterPeterson, Jocelyn A., Long, Keith R.