Woodlawn Mine

Past Producer in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Zinc, Molybdenum
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. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014802
MRDS ID D011755
Record type Site
Current site name Woodlawn Mine
Alternate or previous names Juniper Hill-Walnut Creek Area

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.34229, 32.88344 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position Within 500 Feet Of Center Of Workings

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Reading Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Gila-Mangas(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Gila 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 Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
016S 015W 25 S2 New Mexico

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Galena Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.34229, 32.88344

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form POD

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Replacement Of Limestone Near Igneous Intrusive

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Central Mining Region Area

Comments on the workings information

  • EXPLORED BY A NUMBER OF OLD ADITS AND TRENCHES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FINNELL, T. L., U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNPUBLISHED DATA, 1976-1980.

  • Deposit

    WATTS, K. C., U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNPUBLISHED DATA, 1977-1979.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SMALL PODS AND SEGREGATIONS OF SULFIDE MINERALS IN MISSISSIPPIAN LAKE VALLEY LIMESTONE INTRUDED BY LATE CRETACEOUS OR EARLY TERTIARY QUARTZ MONZONITE. ANOMALOUS AG, PB, ZN, AND MO IN STREAM SEDIMENTS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-84 Seanor, Clint E. (Worl, Ron) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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