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Anaconda Section 9 Mine

Past Producer in Cibola county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium, Fluorine-Fluorite, 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. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Production statistics
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012891
MRDS ID D008889
Record type Site
Current site name Anaconda Section 9 Mine
Alternate or previous names Section 9 Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.79645, 35.287 (WGS84)
Elevation 2134
Relative position ABOUT 9.5 MILES N 17 E OF GRANTS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cibola(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dos Lomas(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 Cibola

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 012N 009W 09 NW New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE CENTER OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 9.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF MINERALS IN DEPOSITS IN THE TODILTO LIMESTONE, SEE H.C. GRANGER, 1963 NMBMMR MEM 15, P. 34.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Carnotite Ore
Coffinite Ore
Fluorite Ore
Pitchblende Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Todilto Limestone
    Rock description Todilto Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.79645, 35.287
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Intraformational Folds, Reef And Reef-Edge Structures.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Deposits Tend To Localize Near Crests Of Intraformational Anticlinal Folds.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1953
Year of last production 1962

Mining district

District name Grants Uranium District: Ambrosia Lake Subdistrict

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Farris Mines.
    Home office Grants, N.M
    First year 1962

Production statistics

  • Year 1962
    Period 1953 To 1962
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major V2O5 Vanadium Vanadium 0wt-pct
  • Year 1962
    Period 1953 To 1962
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major U3O8 Uranium Uranium 0wt-pct

Comments on the workings information

  • ABOUT 25 INDIVIDUAL ORE BODIES HAVE BEEN MINED FROM SECTION 9 BY OPEN PITS AND BY ADITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MCLAUGHLIN, E.D., JR., 1963 NMBMMR MEM 15, P. 147

  • Deposit

    PERRY, B.L., 1963 NMBMMR MEM 15, P. 150-156

  • Deposit

    THADEN, R.E., SANTOS, E.S., AND OSTLING, E.J., 1967 USGS MAP GQ-680

  • Deposit

    HILPERT, L.S., 1969 USGS PP 603, P. 59

  • Production

    U. S. GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1982 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

Beyond USGS

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