F-33 Mine

Past Producer in Cibola county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite
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. 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. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012892
MRDS ID D008890
Record type Site
Current site name F-33 Mine
Alternate or previous names Anaconda Section 33 Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.78451, 35.21895 (WGS84)
Elevation 2134
Relative position ABOUT 6 MILES N 35 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

Grants(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 33 SE New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR MINE IN SEC. 33 AS SHOWN ON THE GRANTS TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE.

Commodities

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

Comments on the commodity information

  • FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF MINERALS FOUND IN DEPOSITS IN THE TODILTO LIMESTONE. SEE GRANGER, H.C., 1963 NMBMMR MEM 15, P. 33-35

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Coffinite Ore
Fluorite Ore
Pitchblende Ore
Tyuyamunite 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) -107.78451, 35.21895

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Deposits Largely Confined To Axial Zones Of Intraformational Anticlines.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Thickness 4.57M
    Length 365.76M
    Width 30.48M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Structural Control.

Comments on the geologic information

  • B.L.PERRY, 1963 NMBMMR MEM 15, P. 150-156, REPORTS SOME ANTICLINAL STRUCTURES IMPORTANT AS ORE CONTROLS SHOULD BE INTERPRETED AS REEF AND REEF-EDGE STRUCTURES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1954
Year of last production 1959

Mining district

District name Grants Uranium District: Ambrosia Lake Subdistrict

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Anaconda Co.
    Home office Grants, N.M
    First year 1959

Production statistics

  • Year 1959
    Period 1954 To 1959
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Minor V2O5 Vanadium Vanadium 0wt-pct
  • Year 1959
    Period 1954 To 1959
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major U3O8 Uranium Uranium 0wt-pct

Comments on the workings information

  • MINED FROM ADIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HILPERT, L.S., AND MOENCH, R.H., 1960 ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, VOL 55, NO 3, P.460-461

  • Deposit

    GRANGER, H.C., 1963 NMBMMR MEM 15, P. 33-35

  • Deposit

    KERR, P.F., AND WILCOX, J.T., 1963 NMBMMR MEM 15, P. 205, 209, 212

  • Deposit

    THADEN, R.E., SANTOS, E.S., AND RAUP, O.B., 1967 USGS MAP GQ-681

  • Deposit

    HILPERT, L.S., 1969 USGS PP 603, P. 59, 101-102

  • Production

    U.S. GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PRINCIPAL DEPOSIT IS STRING-LIKE, TRENDS N 70 E, IS ABOUT 100 FT. WIDE, UP TO 15 FT. THICK AND MORE THAN 1200 FT. LONG.

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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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:

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