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Drake Prospect

Occurrence in Socorro county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Barium-Barite
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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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012389
MRDS ID D007995
Record type Site
Current site name Drake Prospect
Alternate or previous names Santa Fe Lease
Related records 10175278

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.22838, 34.4698 (WGS84)
Elevation 1859
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 35 MILES N 34 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

Riley(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Magdalena(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Socorro(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio Puerco(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 003N 004W 23 CENTER New Mexico

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    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 Madera Limestone
    Rock description Madera Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.22838, 34.4698
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Barite Occurs In A Dike Intruded Along A N 8 W Striking Fault Zone.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N 8 W
    Dip 70 NE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Donald Drake And Leonard Ross
    First year 1960
  • Type Owner
    Owner Santa Fe Railway Co.
    Home office 314 First Sw, Albuquerque, N.M.
    First year 1981

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1964 CONSISTED OF ONE SHALLOW PROSPECT PIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, F.E., FILLO, P.V., AND BLOOM, P.A., 1964 NMBMMR CIRC 76, P. 30

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1981 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

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