| Deposit ID | 10009214 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | D001963 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Apache Trail Mine |
| Alternate or previous names | Claim, Apache Trail |
| Geographic coordinates: | -108.35673, 32.60068 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 1890 |
| Relative position | ABOUT 13 MILES S 21 W OF SILVER CITY. |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Grant(county)
New Mexico(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
White Signal(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Silver City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Mimbres(hydrologic unit)
Mimbres(hydrologic accounting unit)
Rio Grande-Mimbres(hydrologic subregion)
Rio Grande(hydrologic region)
Federal lands
ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | New Mexico | Grant |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 020S | 015W | 01,02 | NW (01); NE (02) | New Mexico |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Copper | Primary |
| Silver | Primary |
| Gold | Primary |
| Bismuth Critical | Primary |
| Uranium | Tertiary |
| Lead | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Chrysocolla | Ore |
| Copper | Ore |
| Galena | Ore |
| Gold | Ore |
| Torbernite | Ore |
| Fluorite | Gangue |
| Limonite | Gangue |
| Pyrite | Gangue |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Specularite | Gangue |
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase | ||||||
| Rock unit name | Burro Mountain Granite | ||||||
| Rock description | Burro Mountain Granite | ||||||
| |||||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase |
| (1) | -108.35673, 32.60068 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Local |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Deposits Occur Along The N 80 W Striking Apache Trail Fault. |
| General form | IRREGULAR |
|---|---|
| Strike | N 80 W |
| Dip | 65 TO 70 NE |
| Thickness | 2.44M |
| Length | 609.6M |
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1890 |
| Year of last production | 1940 |
| District name | White Signal District: Southern Burro Mountains |
|---|
| Ownership category | State |
|---|
| Type | Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | C. M. Russell |
| Home office | Tyrone, Nm. |
| First year | 1940 |
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Charles Russel, Tyrone, N.M. And Elsie R. Wiley, Los Angeles, Ca. . State Of New Mexico |
| First year | 1962 |
| Type of workings | Surface/Underground |
|---|---|
| Length | 80.77M |
| Overall depth | 60.96M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | D001963 |
COOPER, J. R., 1962, BISMUTH OF U.S.: USGS MR - 22
LOVERING, T.G., 1956 USGS BULL 1009-L, P. 341-344
GILLERMAN, E., 1964 NMBMMR BULL 83, P. 87-89
HEDLUND, D.C., 1978 USGS MISCELLANEOUS FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-1041
NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | DEPOSITS OCCUR IN A QUARTZ-SPECULARITE VEIN UP TO 8 FT. THICK AND 2000 FT. IN LENGTH. ONE UNPATENTED CLAIM MINERAL SURVEY NUMBER 2016 COVERING ABOUT 20 ACRES. |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-DEC-75 | Miller, M. H. | New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources | |
| Updater | 01-AUG-82 | Menzie, David | New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources |
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