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Mid-Day Zinc Deposit

Occurrence in Otero county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Zinc, Copper, Lead
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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. 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 10009957
MRDS ID D003271
Record type Site
Current site name Mid-Day Zinc Deposit
Alternate or previous names Alabama Group: Claims Patented In 1903, Mid Day, Alabama, Adah Lee, R.E.C., Monogram

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.11083, 32.40291 (WGS84)
Elevation 1356
Relative position ABOUT 35.5 MILES S 15 W OF ALAMOGORDO.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Otero(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Orogrande North(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Las Cruces(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Las Cruces(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Tularosa Valley(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande Closed Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande Closed Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Otero

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 022S 008E 10 SW New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE APPROXIMATE CENTER OF THE MID-DAY CLAIM.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Copper Secondary
Lead Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Smithsonite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Garnet Gangue
Magnetite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Gobbler Formation
    Rock description Gobbler Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.11083, 32.40291
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form SKARN

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralization Localized In A Fractured Limestone Xenolith In Monzonite Porphyry.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Orogrande District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner J. E. Moffett
    Home office Alamogordo, N.M.
    First year 1961

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF SEVERAL SHALLOW ADITS AND CUTS AND MANY SCATTERED PROSPECT PITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SCHMIDT, P.G., AND CRADDOCK, C., 1964 NMBMMR BULL 82, PLATE 1

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FIVE PATENTED CLAIMS MINERAL SURVEY NUMBER 1089 COVERING 58.159 ACRES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-78 Hasler, J. William New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-MAY-83 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

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

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