Tom Mays Park Prospect

Occurrence in El Paso county in Texas, United States with commodities Copper, Arsenic
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10085697
MRDS ID W701327
Record type Site
Current site name Tom Mays Park Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.50556, 31.91432 (WGS84)
Elevation 1676
Relative position 9 MI (15 KM) NNW OF EL PASO

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

El Paso(county)

Texas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Canutillo(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

El Paso(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

El Paso(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

El Paso-Las Cruces(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande-Caballo(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Mimbres(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Texas El Paso

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Arsenic Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcanthite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Fluorite Gangue
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Siderite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Pyritization Of Diabase Dike; Feldspar Destruction In Granite Wall Rock

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Red Bluff Granite
    Rock description Red Bluff Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.50556, 31.91432

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N60E
    Dip 35 NW
    Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • A DEPOSIT OF ARSENOPYRITE WAS REPORTEDLY PROSPECTED AT THE WEST BASE OF THE FRANKLIN MOUNTAINS, EAST OF CANUTILLO.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Franklin Mountains

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PRICE, J. G., HENRY, C. D., AND STANDEN, A. R., 1983, ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MINERAL DEPOSITS IN TRANS-PECOS TEXAS: BUREAU OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY (TEXAS), MINERAL RESOURCE CIRCULAR NO. 73, 108 P

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN OCCURS ALONG FAULT-MAFIC DIKE ZONE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1990 Paidakovich, Matthew E. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1990 Long, Keith R. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.