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Marquez Mine

Past Producer in McKinley county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium, Molybdenum, Selenium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Production statistics
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008416
MRDS ID D000581
MAS/MILS ID 0350310112
Record type Site
Current site name Marquez Mine
Alternate or previous names Mine: Calumet, Marcus
Related records 10248136

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -107.75895, 35.34311 (WGS84)
Elevation 2073
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 14.4 MILES N 10 E OF GRANTS, NM

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

McKinley(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dos Lomas(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Grants(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Albuquerque(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio San Jose(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico McKinley

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 013N 009W 23,24 N2 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS ACCURATE FOR THE CLUSTER OF BUILDINGS SHOWN ON THE DOS LOMAS QUADRANGLE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Selenium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Gangue

Analytical data

Result MO -0.0015 TO 0.7 PERCENT (GRANGER, H., 1961)

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Morrison
    Rock description Morrison
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -107.75895, 35.34311
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description San Mateo Fault

Ore body information

  • General form LENS
    Thickness 7.62M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • A Disconformity

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE DEPOSIT OCCURS IN THE POISON CANYON SANDSTONE OF THE BRUSHY BASIN MEMBER OF THE MORRISON FORMATION.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1955
Discoverer Calumet And Hecla Mining Co., Grants, Nm
Year of first production 1958
Year of last production 1966

Mining district

District name Grants Uranium District: Ambrosia Lake Subdistrict

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Bokum Mining and Exploration
    Home office NM
    Year 1979
  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner United Nuclear Corp.
    Home office Gallup, Nm.
    First year 1983

Production statistics

  • Year 1966
    Period 1958 To 1966
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major U3O8 Ore Uranium Uranium 0wt-pct

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION TOTALLED 723,032 TONS OF ORE.

Comments on the workings information

  • THE WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 1875-FT 10-DEGREE INCLINE SHAFT WITH MODIFIED ROOM AND PILLAR WORKINGS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GRANGER, H., ET AL., 1961, ECON. GEOL., V. 56, NO. 7

  • Deposit

    RAPAPORT, I., 1963, NMBMMR MEM 15, P. 122-135

  • Deposit

    WEEGE, R.J., 1963, NMBMMR MEM 15, P. 117-121

  • Deposit

    JOHNSTON, G.C., 1963, NMBMMR MEM 15, P. 256-264

  • Deposit

    HILPERT, L.S., 1969, USGS PP 603, P. 34

  • Deposit

    HOLMQUIST, R.J., 1970, USAEC BME-172, P. 44

  • Deposit

    ANDERSON, O.J., 1980, NMBMMR OFR-148,

  • Deposit

    MCLEMORE, V.T., 1983, NMBMMR OFR-183, APPENDIX 1

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GEOLOGIC MAP 31, 1979

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR MINES FILE

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR MAP FILES

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR MINES FILE

  • Deposit

    FILE, 1965, NMBM CIRC 77

  • Deposit

    USGS 7 1/2 MIN TOPO

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE DEPOSIT CONSISTS OF LARGE AND MEDIUM ELONGATE DEPOSITS THAT TREND SOUTHEASTWARD AND EASTWARD THROUGH THE CENTER OF THE SECTION. THE ORE IS LOCATED BENEATH A DISCONFORMITY AND GENERALLY IS LOCATED WITH CARBONACEOUS TRASH AND WHERE THE SANDSTONE THICKNESS EXCEEDS 40 FEET.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-74 King, Robert U. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-FEB-84 Murray, Diane U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 31-OCT-11 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted duplicate records 10223255 and 10248136.
Reporter 18-NOV-83 New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources MAS 0350310343 = 10223255
Reporter 18-NOV-83 Intermountain Filed Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0350310112 = 10248136

Beyond USGS

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