Wilson Prospect

Occurrence in Taos county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Copper, Gold
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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087612
MRDS ID D008295
Record type Site
Current site name Wilson Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.78946, 36.21866 (WGS84)
Elevation 2347
Relative position ABOUT 18 MILES S 44 W OF TAOS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Taos(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Trampas(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Taos(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Raton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Rio Grande(hydrologic unit)

Upper Rio Grande(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NM)

Bureau of Land Management NM BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Taos

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 023N 011E 20 NE New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE MAIN WORKINGS LOCATED ABOUT 2000 FEET EAST OF THE CHAMPION MINE AND SHOWN ON THE TRAMPAS TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Gold Ore
Malachite Ore
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Ortega Formation
    Rock description Ortega Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.78946, 36.21866

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Deposit Occurs Along The West-Southwest Plunging Copper Hill Anticline.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Picuris District: Copper Hill Area

Land status

Ownership category State

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTEDLY CONSISTED OF SEVERAL SHALLOW SHAFTS AND PROSPECT PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SCHILLING, J.H, 1960 NMBMMR BULL 71, P. 103

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN,W., GRATON, L.C., AND GORDON, C.H., 1910 USGS PP 68, P. 89-91

  • Deposit

    JONES, F.A., 1904 NEW MEXICO MINES AND MINERALS, WORLDS FAIR EDITION, THE NEW MEXICAN PRINTING CO., P. 161

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1982 Menzie , David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

Beyond USGS

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

External references