Devils Canyon Prospect

Past Producer in Dona Ana county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite
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. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012962
MRDS ID D009001
Record type Site
Current site name Devils Canyon Prospect
Alternate or previous names Devils Canyon Mine
Related records 10174242

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.53445, 32.25736 (WGS84)
Elevation 1737
Relative position ABOUT 15 MILES S 74 E OF LAS CRUCES.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Dona Ana(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Organ Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Las Cruces(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Las Cruces(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Tularosa Valley(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande Closed Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande Closed Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Dona Ana

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 023S 004E 33 SE New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE PROSPECT IN SECTION 33 AS SHOWN ON THE ORGAN PEAK TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Fluorite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Organ Needle Quartz Monzonite
    Rock description Organ Needle Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name El Paso Group
    Rock description El Paso Group

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.53445, 32.25736

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Mcanulty (1978) Indicates That The Devils Canyon Prospect Lies Within The Resurgent Organ Mtn. Caldera.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR, CIGAR SHAPED
    Thickness 6.1M
    Length 30.48M
    Width 7.62M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralized Solutions Replaced A Favorable Host Rock.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1932
Year of last production 1934

Mining district

District name South Canyon District: Southern Organ Mountains

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Beasley, A. H.
    Home office Las Cruces, N.M.
    First year 1934
  • Type Owner
    Owner White Sands Missile Range

Comments on the production information

  • DUNHAM REPORTED AN UNKNOWN AMOUNT OF BARITE WAS PRODUCED DURING 1932, 1933 AND 1934.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall depth 7.62M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1935 CONSISTED OF AN OPENCUT ABOUT 25 FT IN DEPTH.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DUNHAM, K.C., 1935 NMBMMR BULL 11, P. 242

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, F.E., FILLO, P.V., AND BLOOM, P.A., 1964 NMBMMR CIRC 76, P. 14

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966 USBM IC-8307, P. 25

  • Deposit

    MCANULTY, W.N., 1978 NMBMMR MEM 34, P. 16

  • Deposit

    SEAGER, W.R., 1981 NMBMMR MEM 36, P. 89, SHEET 1

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FLUORITE HAS REPLACED MARBLE, FORMING A MASS ABOUT 100 FT LONG, 20 FT THICK AND EXPLORED TO A DEPTH OF 25 FT.
Deposit THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM RECORD D009950 BY RONALD G. WORL WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1982 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-DEC-1982 Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references