Cora Miller Mine

Past Producer in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Silver, Copper, Gold, Lead
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 10013286
MRDS ID D009506
Record type Site
Current site name Cora Miller Mine
Alternate or previous names Cora Mitchell Mine
Related records 10295937

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.53673, 32.854 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Relative position ABOUT 16.5 MILES N 71 W OF SILVER CITY.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mangas Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Gila-Mangas(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NM)

Bureau of Land Management NM BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 017S 016W 06 SW New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION SHOWN ON THE CLIFF TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Copper Secondary
Gold Secondary
Lead Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Datil Formation
    Rock description Datil Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.53673, 32.854

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL
    Thickness 1.52M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1885
Year of last production 1941

Mining district

District name Telegraph District: Northern Burro Mountains; Mangas Creek Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner C. T. Ward
    First year 1941
  • Type Owner
    Owner Harvey Foster.
    Home office Cliff,N.M
    First year 1962

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION YEARS WERE 1920, 1940, AND 1941.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1964 CONSISTED OF A SHAFT AND TWO ADITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN,W.,GRATION,L.C.,AND GORDON,C.H., 1910 USGS PP 68, P. 326

  • Deposit

    ELSTON, W.E., 1960 NMBMMR GEOLOGIC MAP GM-15

  • Deposit

    GILLERMAN,E., 1964 NMBMMR BULL 83, P. 151-153, PLATE 1

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT OCCURS AS A VEIN FILLING A NORTHEAST TRENDING FISSURE AND RANGING FROM 1 TO 5 FT. THICK.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-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