San Antonio Mine

Past Producer in Luna county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Zinc
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 10013937
MRDS ID D010507
Record type Site
Current site name San Antonio Mine
Alternate or previous names San Antonio Group: Claims Patented In 1892, Sunrise, Sunset
Related records 10248087

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.65393, 32.14374 (WGS84)
Elevation 1440
Relative position ABOUT 10.5 MILES S 37 E OF DEMING.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Luna(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Capitol Dome(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Deming(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Las Cruces(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Mimbres(hydrologic unit)

Mimbres(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Mimbres(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(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 Luna

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 025S 008W 10 SE New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE PORTAL OF THE MAIN WORKINGS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Smithsonite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name El Paso Limestone
    Rock description El Paso Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.65393, 32.14374

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL
    Strike N 30 W TO N 85 E
    Dip VERTICAL
    Thickness 0.61M

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 1900
Year of last production 1947

Mining district

District name Florida Mountains District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Frank Weldon ; Wade White
    Home office Lordsburg, N.M.
    First year 1947
  • Type Owner
    Owner W. J. Upton, L. R. Oldham, R. M. Raithel, C. R. Scott
    First year 1950

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1961 CONSISTED OF A SHORT ADIT AND SEVERAL P ROSPECT PITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GRISWOLD, G.B., 1961 NMBMMR BULL 72, P. 123-124

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    CLEMONS, R.E., 1982 NMBMMR GEOLOGIC MAP GM-56

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TWO PATENTED CLAIMS MINERAL SURVEY NUMBERS 642 AND 643 COVERING 3 9.722 ACRES. FIVE UNPATENTED CLAIMS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1983 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