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Gold Lake Placer

Past Producer in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Gold, Garnet, Bismuth
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014666
MRDS ID D011545
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Lake Placer
Related records 10174595

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.31312, 32.55012 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

White Signal(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Mimbres(hydrologic unit)

Mimbres(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Mimbres(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
020S 014W 20 S2 New Mexico

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Garnet Primary
Bismuth Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.31312, 32.55012
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Heavy Minerals Localized In Gravels.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name White Signal District, Burro Mountains

Comments on the production information

  • AMOUNT OF PRODUCTION PRIOR TO 1931 IS UNKNOWN.

Comments on development

  • MINED INTERMITTANTLY BETWEEN 1900 AND 1932.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GILLERMAN, ELLIOT, 1964, NMBMMR BULL. 83, P. 101-102

  • Production

    GILLERMAN, ELLIOT, 1964, NMBMMR BULL. 83, P.101-102.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit HOLOCENE GRAVELS BELOW GOLD-BEARING QUARTZ VEINS (AGE PROBABLY CRET-TERT) IN KNOB OF PRECAMBRIAN GRANITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1984 Seanor, Clint E. (Worl, Ron) U.S. Geological Survey

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