Gold Hill Mine

Past Producer in Hidalgo county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Bismuth, Tellurium, Lead, Zinc
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 10009212
MRDS ID D001958
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Hill Mine
Alternate or previous names Hardscrabble Mine: Patented Claims of the Hardscrabble Group, Silver Lake, Hardscrabble, Owl, Norton, Martin: Patented Claims of the Ridgewood Group, Monrania, Ridgewood: Gold Acre Group of Eight Claims Is Unpatented.
Related records 10295977

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.45256, 31.82125 (WGS84)
Elevation 1753
Relative position ABOUT 39.5 MILES S 23 E 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

Hachita Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Animas(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Douglas(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Playas Lake(hydrologic unit)

Mimbres(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Mimbres(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(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 028S 016W 35 SW New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE MAIN WORKINGS LOCATED ON THE NORTON CLAIM.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Secondary
Bismuth Critical Tertiary
Tellurium Critical Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Malachite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Tourmaline Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Hell-To-Finish Formation
    Rock description Hell-To-Finish Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.45256, 31.82125

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralization Occurs In Fractures And Joints In An East-West Trending Felsite Or Aplite Dike Intruded Into Cretaceous Limestones, Shales, Quartzites And Conglomerates.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1908
Discoverer J.E. Predmore And J.M. Wilcox
Year of first production 1908
Year of last production 1941

Mining district

District name Sylvanite District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Gold Producers, Inc.
    Home office Los Angeles, Ca.
    First year 1941
  • Type Owner
    Owner Hidalgo Gold Mines, Inc.
    Home office Denver, Colorado
    First year 1937

Comments on the production information

  • LASKY, 1947, REPORTED TOTAL PRODUCTION THROUGH 1936 WAS 300 TONS CONTAINING ABOUT 300 OZ AU, 135 OZ AG, AND 3800 LB CU.. PRODUCTION YEARS WERE FROM 1908 TO 1912, 1934, 1935 AND FROM 1939 TO 1941.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF SEVERAL ADITS AND OPEN CUTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COOPER, J. R., 1962, BISMUTH OF U.S.: USGS MR - 22

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W., GRATON, L.C., AND GORDON, C.H., 1910 USGS PP 68, P. 338, P. 342

  • Deposit

    LASKY, S.G., 1947 USGS PP 208, P. 93-94

  • Deposit

    ZELLER, R.A., JR., 1970 NMBMMR BULL 96, P. 19 AND PLATE 1

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SIX PATENTED CLAIMS MINERAL SURVEY NUMBERS 1560 AND 1922. EIGHT UNPATENTED CLAIMS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-75 Miller, M. H. 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.

External references