North and South Pegmatite Deposits

Occurrence in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodities REE, Thorium, Uranium, Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium)
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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010003
MRDS ID D003340
Record type Site
Current site name North and South Pegmatite Deposits
Alternate or previous names South and North Pegmatite Deposits
Related records 10272079

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.50812, 32.45512 (WGS84)
Elevation 2042
Relative position ABOUT 26 MILES S 31 W OF SILVER CITY.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Hill(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)

Federal lands

Gila National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 021S 016W 29 NE New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE NORTH PEGMATITE AS SHOWN ON USGS MISC. FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-1035.. THE SOUTH PEGMATITE IS LOCATED ABOUT 750 FT. SOUTHEAST OF THE NORTH PEGMATITE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
REE Critical Primary
Thorium Secondary
Uranium Secondary
Tantalum Critical Secondary
Niobium (Columbium) Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Euxenite Ore
Feldspar Gangue
Fluorite Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Mica Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Burro Mountain Granite
    Rock description Burro Mountain Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.50812, 32.45512

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Pegmatites Occur Along A N 40 W Trending Alignment And Elongation Of The Individual Pegmatites Is Parallel Or Subparallel To The Trend Of The Alignment.

Ore body information

  • General form LENSE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Gold Hill District: Southern Burro Mountains

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Cherry Mining Co.
    Home office Texas
    First year 1956
  • Type Owner
    Owner Fred L. Cherry
    Home office Silver City, N.M.
    First year 1956

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 6.1M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1964 CONSISTED OF A 20 FT. SHAFT, A 40 FT. ADIT, AN OPENCUT AND SOME SMALL PROSPECT PITS.

Reference information

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSITS OCCUR IN ZONED PEGMATITES TRENDING N 40 W.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-78 Lawrence, V. A. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-JUL-82 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.