All American Mine

Past Producer in Lincoln county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, REE
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. Mineral occurrence model information
  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. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013643
MRDS ID D010052
Record type Site
Current site name All American Mine
Related records 10150332

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.76723, 34.21259 (WGS84)
Elevation 2377
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position 10 MI S 74 W OF CIBOLA, NM.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pajaro Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Corona(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Fort Sumner(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

Cibola 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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 001S 011E 23 NE OF NW New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • IN THE CIBOLA NATIONAL FOREST. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1954)

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Bastnasite Ore
Fluorite Ore

Analytical data

Result A COMPOSITE SAMPLE OF SEVEN SAMPLES CONTAINED 54.27% CAF2 AND 11.72% BASO4.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 174
USGS model code 26b
Deposit model name Fluorspar deposits (fluorite veins)

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Syenite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pleistocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Yeso
    Rock description Yeso

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.76723, 34.21259

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Dome Structure Caused By A Syenitic Laccolith.
Type of structure Local
Structure description Two Major Intersecting Faults Of Unknown Orientation.

Ore body information

  • General form PIPES, IRREGULAR BODIES

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Brecciated Faults, Particularly The Intersections Of These Faults

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1942
Year of first production 1949
Year of last production 1951

Mining district

District name Gallinas Mining District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Blm Roswell Resource Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Edward D. French
    First year 1951
  • Type Owner
    Owner Edward D. French
    First year 1966

Comments on the workings information

  • THE DEPOSIT WAS WORKED THROUGH ABOUT 185 FT OF CURVED DRIFT EXTENDING WEST AND SOUTHWEST FROM THE BOTTOM OF AN 85 FT DEEP 2-COMPARTMENT SHAFT. SEVERAL SHALLOW PITS AND TRENCHES WERE LATER DUG ALONG SURFACE EXPOSURES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, USBM INF CIRC 8307, P. 77.

  • Deposit

    ROTHROCK, HE, 1946, NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 113-114.

  • Deposit

    SOULE, JH, 1946, USBM RI 3854, P. 17.

  • Production

    WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, P. 77.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE DEPOSIT LIES IN NORTH-DIPPING ROCKS CONSISTING PREDOMINATLY OF QUARTZITIC SANDSTONES WITH MINOR LIMESTONES THAT ARE CUT BY A SILL OF SEYENITE PORPHYRY AND BY TWO INTERSECTING MAJOR FAULTS. JOINTS, SMALL FOLDS, AND BRECCIA ZONES WERE DEVELOPED DURING THE INTRUSION AND ADJUSTMENTS THAT FOLLOWED. FLUORINE-BEARING SOLUTIONS, ADMITTED THROUGH THESE STRUCTURES AND ALONG BEDDING CONTACTS, REACTED WITH THE PERMEABLE ROCK TO FORM STRINGERS OF FLUORSPAR IN THE JOINTS. VEINS ALONG THE FAULTS AND BEDDING PLANES, PIPELIKE BODIES AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF FRACTURES, AND IRREGULAR MASSES IN BRECCIA ZONES. UNBRECCIATED ROCK WAS NOT NOTICEABLY AFFECTED BY THE SOLUTIONS. WITHIN THE EXPOSED MINERALIZED AREA, WHICH IS ABOUT 500 FT LONG AND 400 FT WIDE, THE DISTRIBUTION AND GRADE OF FLUORSPAR ARE HIGHLY IRREGULAR. THE FLUORSPAR IS FINE-GRAINED, COMPACT, OR POROUS, AND PURPLE ON FRESH SURFACES. LATER STAGES OF MINERALIZATION ARE REPRESENTED BY THE FORMATION OF DRUSY FLUORITE IN CAVITIES AND BY THE
Deposit INTRODUCTION OF BASTNASITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1983 Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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