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Malone Mines

Past Producer in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc
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  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 10013305
MRDS ID D009528
Record type Site
Current site name Malone Mines
Alternate or previous names Principal Mines, Malone Mine, Hillcrest Mine, Patanka Mine, Barranca Mine: Claims, Fujiama Or Malone No. 1, Vesuvius Or Malone No. 2, Malone No. 3, Parucutin Or Malone No. 4, Barria, Los Ancienos, Codena De Plata, Santos Mineros, Barra Rosea, Argonaut, Saragosa, Katmai Or Jalisco, Stromboli Or Tip Tilt
Related records 10223235

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.52618, 32.54429 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829
Relative position ABOUT 22 MILES S 42 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

Eagle Eye Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Animas Valley(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Gila National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 020S 016W 19,20,29,30 SE (19); SW (20); NW (29); NE (30) New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE CENTER OF THE MALONE MINES AS SHOWN ON THE REDROCK TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Secondary
Lead Secondary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitization, Kaolinization, Hematitic Alteration.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Burro Mountain Granite
    Rock description Burro Mountain Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.52618, 32.54429
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Mineralized Fractures Occur In The Granite Adjacent To The Malone Fault Which Strikes N 20 W And Dips 70 Ne.

Ore body information

  • General form SHOOTS AND PODS
    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
Discovery year 1884
Discoverer John B. Malone
Year of first production 1885
Year of last production 1956

Mining district

District name Malone District: Knight Peak And Brock Ridge Areas

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Leach, Albert A.
    Home office Lordsburg, N.M.
    First year 1956
  • Type Owner
    Owner Leach, Albert A.
    Home office Lordsburg, N.M.
    First year 1961

Comments on the production information

  • GILLERMAN, 1964, P. 112, REPORTED ABOUT 300000 DOLLARS WORTH OF GOLD AND MINOR SILVER. ABOUT 250000 DOLLARS WORTH WAS PRODUCED PRIOR TO 1925 AND 50000 DOLLARS SINCE 1925.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1964 CONSISTED OF NUMEROUS SHAFTS RANGING FROM ABOUT 50 TO 100 FT. IN DEPTH, MANY SHORT ADITS, WINZES, RAISES, STOPES, TRENCHES AND SHALLOW PITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JONES, F.A., 1904 NEW MEXICO MINES AND MINERALS, THE NEW MEXICAN PRINTING CO., P. 63

  • Deposit

    LASKY, S.G., AND WOOTTON, T.P., 1933 NMBMMR BULL 7, P. 58

  • Deposit

    BALLMANN, D.L., 1960 NMBMMR BULL 70, 39 PAGES, 1 PLATE

  • Deposit

    GILLERMAN, E., 1964 NMBMMR BULL 83, P. 111-116, PLATE 1

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    HEDLUND, D.C., 1980 USGS MISC. FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-1265

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GILLERMAN, 1964, P. 113, REPORTED 41 MINERALIZED VEINS, MOSTLY STRIKING FROM N 45 W TO N 85 W AND A FEW STRIKING NORTHEAST. THE MOST PRODUCTIVE VEINS WERE THE ESMERALDA, THE PATANKA, THE HILLCREST AND THE BARRANCA, THE WIDTH OF THESE VEINS RANGED FROM 3 TO 5 FT... 13 UNPATENTED CLAIMS IN 1961.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1982 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

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