Gold Hill Area

Occurrence in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, REE
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10009169
MRDS ID D001877
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Hill Area

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.48395, 32.38345 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

C Bar Ranch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lordsburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(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 Grant

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Niobium (Columbium) Critical Primary
Tantalum Critical Primary
REE Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Euxenite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) Gila Group, Formation, or Conglomerate

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PARKER, R. L., 1963, NIOBIUM AND TANTALUM IN THE U. S., U. S. G. S. MINERAL INVESTIGATIONS RESOURCE MAP MR - 36

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1975 Parker, Raymond L. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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