Hoggett Manganese Deposits

Past Producer in Hidalgo county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Manganese, Tungsten, Fluorine-Fluorite
Sections on this page
  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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008864
MRDS ID D001329
Record type Site
Current site name Hoggett Manganese Deposits
Alternate or previous names Ridge Deposit, Broaddus Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.70395, 31.7432 (WGS84)
Elevation 1577
Relative position ABOUT 42 MILES DUE SOUTH OF LORDSBURG.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hidalgo(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gillespie Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Animas(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Douglas(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Animas Valley(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Hidalgo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 029S 018W 31,32 E2 (31); W2 (32) New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS SHOWN ON PLATE 1 OF NMBMMR BULLETIN 84.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Psilomelane Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Quartz Latite
    Rock unit name Oak Creek Tuff
    Rock description Oak Creek Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Quartz Latite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.70395, 31.7432

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Animas District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Combined Minerals, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas And Lurex Mining Corp.
    First year 1957
  • Type Owner
    Owner G. M. Dunagan
    Home office Deming, N.M.
    First year 1957

Comments on the production information

  • FARNHAM, 1961, REPORTED TOTAL PRODUCTION HAS BEEN ABOUT 100 TONS OF SORTED ORE CONTAINING ABOUT 40 % MN AND ABOUT 400 TONS OF CONCENTRATES AT 42 % MN.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF SEVERAL SMALL OPEN PITS AND AN INACCESSIBLE 60 FT. SHAFT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.

  • Deposit

    DALE, V.B., AND MCKINNEY, W.A., 1959 USBM IC-5517, P. 24-25

  • Deposit

    FARNHAM, L.L., 1961 USBM IC-8030, P. 44-45

  • Deposit

    ZELLER, R.A., JR., AND ALPER, A.M., 1965 NMBMMR BULL 84, P. 80-83, PLATE 1

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966 USBM IC-8307, P. 71-72

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 19 UNPATENTED CLAIMS IN 1957.
Deposit WORKED FOR MANGANESE; NO TUNGSTEN PRODUCTION ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-74 Elliott, James E. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-MAR-83 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.