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Nunns Lease

Occurrence in Sierra county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Manganese
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  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 10012000
MRDS ID D007224
Record type Site
Current site name Nunns Lease
Related records 10296836

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.42226, 32.68234 (WGS84)
Elevation 1448
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 27 MILES S 23 E OF TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sierra(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Jug Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hatch(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Las Cruces(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

El Paso-Las Cruces(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande-Caballo(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Mimbres(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Sierra

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 019S 006W 02 SE New Mexico

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Psilomelane Ore
Calcite Gangue
Opal Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.42226, 32.68234
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Steeply Dipping, Brecciated Shear Zone Trends North.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike NORTH
    Dip VERTICAL

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Nunn, A. E.
    Home office Deming, N.M.
    First year 1960
  • Type Owner
    Owner State Of New Mexico
    Home office New Mexico
    First year 1980

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1961 CONSISTED OF 3 SHALLOW PITS AND 5 BULLDOZER TRENCHES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FARNHAM, L.L., 1961 USBM IC-8030, P. 91-92

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSITS OCCUR AS FILMS, STRINGERS AND PODS ALONG A BRECCIATED SHEAR ZONE. 80 ACRES LEASED FROM THE STATE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-81 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

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