Liberty Bell Mine

Past Producer in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Copper, Silver
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013304
MRDS ID D009527
Record type Site
Current site name Liberty Bell Mine
Alternate or previous names Copper Mountian

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.39729, 32.63179 (WGS84)
Elevation 1913
Relative position ABOUT 12 MILES S 35 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

Wind Mountain(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 019S 015W 21,28 S2 (21); N2 (28) New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE MAIN SHAFT OF THE LIBERTY BELL MINE AS SHOWN ON THE WIND MOUNTAIN TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitization, Kaolinization And Silicification.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Tyrone Quartz Monzonite
    Rock description Tyrone Quartz Monzonite
    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) Tertiary-Cretaceous intrusive rocks

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Deposits Occur Along The Northeast Striking Burro Chief Fault.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N 50 TO 55 E
    Dip 40 TO 60 SE

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 1900
Year of last production 1946

Mining district

District name Burro Mountains District: Tyrone Area; Deadman Canyon

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner C. L. Enos, Tyrone, N.M. ; J. H. Trigg Co., Roswell, N.M.
    First year 1946
  • Type Owner
    Owner R. P. Thompson
    Home office Tyrone, N.M.
    First year 1960

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 60.96M
    Overall depth 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1964 CONSISTED OF THREE ADITS WITH DRIFTS, CROSSCUTS AND STOPES TOTALING ABOUT 200 FT. IN LENGTH, A SHALLOW SHAFT OR A RAISE TO THE SURFACE, AND A SHALLOW OPENCUT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GILLERMAN, E., 1964 NMBMMR BULL 83, P. 53-54

  • Deposit

    HEDLUND, D.C., 1978 USGS MISC. FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-1031

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSITS OCCUR AS VEINS, STRINGERS AND PODS IN FRACTURES AND BRECCIA ALONG A HIGHLY SHATTERED SHEAR ZONE. ONE PATENTED CLAIM MINERAL SURVEY NUMBER 1205.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-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