Section 32 Mine

Producer in McKinley county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Uranium, Molybdenum
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. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012515
MRDS ID D008174
Record type Site
Current site name Section 32 Mine
Alternate or previous names Homestake-New Mexico Partners Mine
Related records 10295795

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.81534, 35.40477 (WGS84)
Elevation 2118
Relative position ABOUT 17.5 MILES N 5 E OF GRANTS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

McKinley(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ambrosia Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Grants(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Albuquerque(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio San Jose(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 McKinley

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 014N 009W 32 NW New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE SHAFT IN SECTION 32 AS SHOWN ON THE AMBROSIA LAKE TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Jordisite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Morrison
    Rock description Morrison
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.81534, 35.40477

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Channel Sandstone And Carbonaceous Material (Humate).

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE OCCURS IN THE WESTWATER CANYON MEMBER OF THE MORRISON FM..

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Year of first production 1958
Year of last production 1979

Mining district

District name Grants Uranium District: Ambrosia Lake Subdistrict

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Homestake Mining Co.
    Home office P.O. Box 98, Grants, N.M. 87020

Comments on development

  • OPERATED BY UNITED NUCLEAR-HOMESTAKE PARTNERS PRIOR TO 1981.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GRANGER, H.C., 1963 NMBMMR MEM 15, P. 29

  • Deposit

    SANTOS, E.S., AND THADEN, R.E., 1966 USGS MAP GQ-515

  • Deposit

    HILPERT, L.S., 1969 USGS PP 603, P. 38

  • Deposit

    CHAPMAN, WOOD, AND GRISWOLD, INC., 1979 NMBMMR GEOLOGIC MAP 31

  • Deposit

    SIEMERS, W.T., AND AUSTIN, G.S., 1979 NMBMMR RESOURCE MAP 9

  • Deposit

    NEW MEXICO STATE INSPECTOR OF MINES, 1981 NEW REGISTRATIONS

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MULTILAYERED DEPOSIT TRENDS EASTWARD.

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.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.