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Name Unknown

Past Producer in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Silver, Manganese
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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 10014770
MRDS ID D011703
Record type Site
Current site name Name Unknown

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.16033, 32.69873 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hurley West(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
018S 013W 35 SW4 New Mexico

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Manganese Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cerargyrite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Lake Valley
    Rock description Lake Valley

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.16033, 32.69873
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along Fractures In Limestone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1920

Mining district

District name Lone Mountain District (Southeast Of)

Comments on the production information

  • SOME PRODUCTION BUT AMOUNT UNKNOWN

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFTS, OPEN PITS, AND OPEN CUTS.

Comments on development

  • DISCOVERED IN 1920. WORKED INTERMITTENTLY BY SHAFTS AND OPEN PITS UNTIL LATE 1940'S.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FRACTURES IN MISSISSIPPIAN LAKE VALLEY LIMESTONE.

Reporter information

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

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