| 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: | -108.98507, 32.16319 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 1455 |
| Relative position | ABOUT 21 MILES S 54 W OF LORDSBURG. |
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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | New Mexico | Hidalgo |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 025S | 021W | 03 | NW | New Mexico |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Lead | Primary |
| Zinc Critical | Primary |
| Silver | Primary |
| Copper | Secondary |
| Gold | Secondary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Chalcopyrite | Ore |
| Galena | Ore |
| Sphalerite | Ore |
| Andradite | Gangue |
| Calcite | Gangue |
| Epidote | Gangue |
| Tremolite | Gangue |
| Wollastonite | Gangue |
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite | ||||||
| |||||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone |
| Rock unit name | Horquilla Limestone |
| Rock description | Horquilla Limestone |
| (1) | -108.98507, 32.16319 |
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| General form | IRREGULAR |
|---|---|
| Thickness | 2M |
| Width | 7M |
| 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 |
| District name | San Simon District |
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| Ownership category | BLM Administrative Area |
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| 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 |
| Year | 1952 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | 1877-1952 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Type of workings | Underground |
|---|---|
| Overall depth | 60.96M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | D003407 |
ARMSTRONG, A.K., SILBERMAN, M.L., TODD, V.R., HOGGATT, W.C., AND CARTEN, R.B., 1978 NMBMMR CIRC 158, P.11, PLATE 1
DREWES; H., AND THORMAN, C.H., 1980 USGS MISC. GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-1220
NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA
| 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 |
| 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 |
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