Lucky John Mine

Past Producer in Luna county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Zinc, Lead, Silver, Copper
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. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013943
MRDS ID D010515
Record type Site
Current site name Lucky John Mine
Alternate or previous names Mahoney Mines
Related records 10295812

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.61281, 32.0757 (WGS84)
Elevation 1966
Relative position ABOUT 16 MILES S 33 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

Gym Peak(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 026N 008W 01 W2 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS SHOWN ON THE GYM PEAK TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Smithsonite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Barite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Fusselman Dolomite
    Rock description Fusselman Dolomite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Silurian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Silurian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.61281, 32.0757

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL
    Strike EAST
    Dip VERTICAL
    Thickness 1.22M

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 1916
Year of last production 1927

Mining district

District name Florida Mountains District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner J. A. Mahoney
    Home office Deming, N.M.
    First year 1927

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 60.96M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1961 CONSISTED OF ONE LONG ADIT, SEVERAL VER TICAL SHAFTS, AND NUMEROUS TRENCHES AND PROSPECT PITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GRISWOLD, G.B., 1961 NMBMMR BULL 72, P.123, FIG. 14

  • Deposit

    DARTON, N.H., 1916 USGS BULL 618

  • Deposit

    DARTON, N.H., 1917 USGS GEOLOGIC ATLAS, DEMING FOLIO, NO. 207

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    CLEMONS, R.E., 1982 NMBMMR GEOLOGIC MAP GM-58

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FIVE EAST-TRENDING VERTICAL VEINS RANGING FROM 0.5 TO 4 FT. THICK .

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