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Eighty Mountain Area

Occurrence in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Iron, Tungsten, Beryllium
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  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 10014804
MRDS ID D011758
Record type Site
Current site name Eighty Mountain Area

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.30062, 32.839 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 250(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Silver City(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)

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
017S 014W 09,16 S2 (09); N2 (16) New Mexico

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Beryllium Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Scheelite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Hematitic

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Oswaldo;Beartooth Quartzite
    Rock description Oswaldo;Beartooth Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.30062, 32.839
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Eighty Mountain Stock

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Central Mining Region Area

Comments on the workings information

  • NUMEROUS SHALLOW SHAFTS AND PITS

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 HEMATITIC ALTERATION ALONG CONTACT ZONE (FAULT?) BETWEEN PENNSYLVANIAN OSWALDO FORMATION AND CRETACEOUS BEARTOOTH QUARTZITE. ANOMALOUS BE AND W IN STREAM SEDIMENTS SUGGESTS SOME SKARN-TYPE MINERALIZATION POSSIBLY RELATED TO TERTIARY EIGHTY MOUNTAIN STOCK.

Reporter information

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

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