Silver Hill Mine

Past Producer in Hidalgo county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Gold
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Production statistics
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010047
MRDS ID D003407
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Hill Mine
Alternate or previous names Claims, Silver Hill, State of Maine: Also Known As the Crosby Mine In 1944 and 1945.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.98507, 32.16319 (WGS84)
Elevation 1455
Relative position ABOUT 21 MILES S 54 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

Steins(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lordsburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Simon(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NM)

Bureau of Land Management NM BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Hidalgo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 025S 021W 03 NW New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS SHOWN ON THE STEINS TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Secondary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Andradite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Tremolite Gangue
Wollastonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Marbleization

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.98507, 32.16319

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Thickness 2M
    Width 7M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Zone Of Limestone And Granite Porphyry Sill

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1877
Discoverer Owen Williams And T.R. Brandt
Year of first production 1910
Year of last production 1953

Mining district

District name San Simon District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Silver Hill Mining Co.
    Home office Lordsburg, N.M.
    First year 1953
  • Type Owner
    Owner C. G. Perry, And C. C. And S.E. Cloudman (Estate)
    First year 1960

Production statistics

  • Year 1952
    Period 1877-1952
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Silver Silver 94g/mt
    Major Ore Zinc Zinc 5wt-pct
    Major Ore Lead Lead 12wt-pct

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 60.96M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1958 CONSISTED OF AN INCLINED SHAFT WITH FIVE LEVELS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TWO UNPATENTED CLAIMS. REPLACEMENT OF PENNSYLVANIAN HORQUILLA LIMESTONE IN MASSES UP TO 2 M. BY 7 M. ALONG FISSURES NEAR CONTACT OF MIDDLE TERTIARY GRANITE PORPHYRY SILL.
Deposit WORKED INTERMITTENTLY BETWEEN 1877 AND 1952. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-78 Richter, D. 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