Quickstrike Mine

Past Producer in Dona Ana county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Bismuth
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013001
MRDS ID D009048
Record type Site
Current site name Quickstrike Mine
Alternate or previous names Claims Patented In 1911, Quick Strick, Fin De Ciecle, La Veta Madre
Related records 10199324

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.55529, 32.43735 (WGS84)
Elevation 1692
Relative position ABOUT 16 MILES N 59 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(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Dona Ana

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 021S 004E 32 SE New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE ADIT ABOUT 2500 FEET EAST OF SAN AUGUSTIN PEAK AS SHOWN ON THE ORGAN TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Bismuth Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Actinolite Gangue
Albite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Diopside Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Orthoclase Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Sugarloaf Peak Quartz Monzonite Porphyry
    Rock description Sugarloaf Peak Quartz Monzonite Porphyry
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.55529, 32.43735

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Organ District: San Augustin Mountains

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Marshall, A.
    First year 1927
  • Type Owner
    Owner White Sands Missile Range

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1935 CONSISTED OF TWO TUNNELS AND SEVERAL OPENCUTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DUNHAM, K.C., 1935 NMBMMR BULL 11, P. 199

  • Deposit

    SEAGER, W.R., 1981 NMBMMR MEM 36, P. 83-84

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SIX PEGMATITE LENSES HAVE A GENERAL TREND TOWARDS THE NORTH. THREE CLAIMS MINERAL SURVEY NUMBER 1409 COVERING 45.882 ACRES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1982 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.

External references