Hancock Mine

Past Producer in Luna county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, 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. 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. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087872
MRDS ID D010504
Record type Site
Current site name Hancock Mine
Related records 10295819

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.7781, 31.90486 (WGS84)
Elevation 1387
Relative position ABOUT 25 MILES S 03 W OF DEMING.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Luna(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

West Lime Hills(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Columbus(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

El Paso(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

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 Luna

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 028S 009W 05 NE New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE MAIN SHAFT.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Galena Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Tres Hermanas Stock
    Rock description Tres Hermanas Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL
    Thickness 1.22M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1950

Mining district

District name Tres Hermanas District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Western Minerals Co.
    First year 1959
  • Type Owner
    Owner C. E. Burdick
    Home office Deming, N.M.
    First year 1900

Comments on the production information

  • LINDGREN, 1909, REPORTED ABOUT 1000 TONS OF RICH LEAD ORE, WITH SO ME GOLD, WAS PRODUCED UP TO 1905.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 121.92M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1961 CONSISTED OF A 400 FT. MAIN SHAFT AND N UMEROUS SHALLOW SHAFTS, PITS AND TRENCHES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, 1909 USGS BULL 380, P. 125

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W., GRATON, L.C., AND GORDON, C.H., 1910 USGS PP 68, P. 2 93

  • Deposit

    GRISWOLD, G.B., 1961 NMBMMR BULL 72, P. 56-59, PLATE 1

  • Deposit

    DORAIBABU, P., AND PROCTOR, P.D., 1972 NMBMMR TARGET EXPLORATION RE PORT E-4, 9 PAGES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1983 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