Mineral Mountain Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087795
MRDS ID D009766
Record type Site
Current site name Mineral Mountain Mine
Alternate or previous names Mineral Mountain Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.80116, 32.88733 (WGS84)
Elevation 2438
Relative position ABOUT 29 MILES N 75 E OF SILVER CITY.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hillsboro Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hatch(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Las Cruces(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
New Mexico 016S 009W 29 CENTER OF W2 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS SHOWN ON THE SAN LORENZO TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE. CADASTRAL GRID PROJECTED.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Secondary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Magdalena Group
    Rock description Magdalena Group
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.80116, 32.88733

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralization Replaced Favorable Host Rocks Adjacent To Fault Zone.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1924
Year of last production 1943

Mining district

District name Carpenter District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner G. L. Nard
    Home office Central, N. M.
    First year 1943
  • Type Owner
    Owner W. D. Murray And Associates
    Home office Silver City, N.M.
    First year 1943

Comments on the production information

  • HELUND, 1978, REPORTED ABOUT 50 TONS OF PB-ZN ORE PRODUCED FROM THE MINERAL MOUNTAIN GROUP.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A SHORT TUNNEL AND SEVERAL PROSPECT PITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HARLEY, G. T., 1934 NMBMMR BULL 10, P. 110-112

  • Deposit

    ERICKSEN, G. E., WEDOW, H., JR., AND EATON, G. P., 1970 USGS BULL 1319-E, P. 80-81

  • Deposit

    HEDLUND, D. C., 1978 USGS MISC. FIELD STUDIES MAP, MF-900

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FOUR UNPATENTED CLAIMS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-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