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CONFIDENTIAL
MERCURY MINES OF THE WORLD
CHART NO. X
No.
Name and Location
Ownership and Nation-
Production
ORE DEPOSITS AND ORE RESERVES
PRODUCTION METHODS
TRANSPORTATION
on
of Mine or Produc-
ality of Controlling
Year
Flasks of
Geological and Mineralogical Notes and Ore Analysis
and Plant Capacities
Labor Employed
Map
ing Area
Capital
76 pounds
and Other Data
MEXICO (Cont'd.)
46.
San Antonio Mine
Tobias E. Guzman and
1943
20-30 per
Masses and stringers of cinnabar over large area in
Several stopes open to the sur-
Mercury shipped 12
Guadalcazar district.
Associates, Owners.
month
limestone.
face. Shaft 400 feet deep. Gam-
miles by truck to
2 miles south by
Mexican Control.
businos style mining over old
Antiquo Morelos then
southeast of Trini-
stopes, pillar robbing.
51 miles to San Luis
dad.
Potosi. R.R. to
State: San Luis
Laredo, Texas. Ex-
Potosi.
tensive old mine.
Past production said
to be very large.
50 workmen mine.
50 workmen smelter.
47.
Guadalupana-Dulces
Information not avail-
1942
10 per
Mineralized fracture zones in limestone and marl.
"Gambusino" method of mining.
Nombres Mine
able.
month
Cinnabar in stringers and pockets of variable width.
20 ton flotation plant. Several
12 miles southwest
Known and probable reserves 50,000 tons 0.2% Hg.
pipe furnaces.
of Moctezuma,
reached by R.R. to
Moctezuma then 12
miles poor road to
mine.
State: San Luis
Potosi.
48.
Linterna Mines Group
C.D. Moll and
1942-3
40 per
Mineralized fractures and bedding planes in congiom-
Leased to "Gambusinos" for 50%
Mercury shipped by
Cuarenta district,
Jesus Paiz, opera-
month
erate beds overlying granite. Total reserves all
of production.
truck 25 miles to
25 miles south of
tors. Cia Explot. de
classes, 200,000 tons - 0.3% average grade.
R.R. station at
Rosario.
Villa Cinabrio.
Rosario.
State: Durango.
Durango, Sr. Paul
Balleros, Owner.
Mexican Control.
49.
La Cruz Mine
Compania Explotadora
1940
1,287
Extensive lenses and fissure fillings in dolomite.
Mined underground by open-stope
Concentrates
Huitzuco group,
de Mercurio de Huit-
1941
1,349
The ore mineral is livingstonite, a sulfide of mer-
method. Flotation plant; distil-
shipped by truck 16
about 16 miles east
zuco, S.A. Owners and
1942
821
cury and antimony. Average grade 0.13% Hg., 0.60%
lation plant - 8 units.
miles to Iguala
of Iguala.
Operators
1943
882
Sb. The only deposits of livingstonite exploited
thence to Tlalne-
State: Guerrero.
commercially, beside those at Huitzuco, are in the
pantla for refining.
USSR.
Production prior to
World War II, 70,000
flasks. Employed
about 300 persons in
1941. Grade of ore
declining.
50.
Huahuaxtla Mine
Dodero Bros. Owners
1942
250 per
Cinnabar in veins from & few inches to 30 feet in
Veins developed to 170 feet in
Shipped from Iguala
about 20 miles
and Operators. Com-
month
width in limestone and shale. Average grade of ore
depth and 1,600 feet in length.
to Laredo by R.R.
north of Iguala, 12
pania Explotadora de
is 0.3% Hg.
Hand mining methods. 100-ton
Past production
miles south of Tax-
Mercurio de Huahuaxtla,
Nichols-Herreshoff furnaces.
large.
CO. Reached via
S.A.
C.P. Mercury.
Mex-Acapulco R.R.
Mexican.
State: Guerrero.
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