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Homestake-Needmore Mine

Past Producer in Hidalgo county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold, Fluorine-Fluorite
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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 10010026
MRDS ID D003374
Record type Site
Current site name Homestake-Needmore Mine
Alternate or previous names Homestake Group: Claims, Homestake, Needmore, Homestake Extension Nos. 1 and 2, Needmore Extension Nos. 1 and 2
Related records 10126413

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.73952, 32.28401 (WGS84)
Elevation 1394
Relative position ABOUT 5 MILES S 21 W 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

Lordsburg(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 Hidalgo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 023S 018W 19 S2 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS SHOWN ON USGS MISC. GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-1151.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Secondary
Gold Secondary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Fluorite Ore
Galena Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.73952, 32.28401
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL
    Strike NORTHEAST
    Dip NORTHWEST

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of last production 1952

Mining district

District name Lordsburg District: Virginia Subdistrict

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Marshal Kuykendall
    Home office Lordsburg, N.M.
    First year 1952
  • Type Owner
    Owner Percy Brown, C.L. Brown, Mabel Eckert And Juanita Miller
    First year 1960

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN THE LATE 1950'S CONSISTED OF THREE SHALLOW SHAFTS AND SEVERAL PROSPECT PITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SIX PATENTED CLAIMS MINERAL SURVEY NUMBER 2213.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-78 Richter, D. H. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-JAN-83 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

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