1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Burris Claims

Past Producer in Socorro county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Manganese
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. 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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012387
MRDS ID D007993
Record type Site
Current site name Burris Claims
Related records 10248437

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.11476, 33.88481 (WGS84)
Elevation 1935
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 17.5 MILES S 47 W OF SOCORRO.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Socorro(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Molino Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

San Mateo Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tularosa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio Grande-Albuquerque(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Socorro

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 005S 003W 11,12 SE OF SW New Mexico

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrolusite Ore
Wad Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) Piedmont alluvial deposits
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1955

Mining district

District name Magdalena Mountains Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner M. V. Dempsey
    First year 1950
  • Type Owner
    Owner B. O. Burris
    First year 1950

Comments on the production information

  • TOTAL PRODUCTION AMOUNTS TO A FEW TENS OF TONS OF HAND-SORTED ORE CONTAINING ABOUT 20% MN.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1961 CONSISTED OF 12 OR MORE BULLDOZER TRENCHES AND OPENCUTS RANGING FROM 25 FT. TO 200 FT. LONG AND UP TO 8 FT. WIDE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FARNHAM, L.L., 1961 USBM IC-8030, P. 159-160

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

  • Production

    FARNHAM, L.L., 1961, P. 160

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1981 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

Maps centered on this site