Seventy-Four Draw Deposits 1936

Occurrence in Sierra county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Tin, Iron
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094412
MRDS ID D006811
Record type Site
Current site name Seventy-Four Draw Deposits 1936
Alternate or previous names Claims, Chloride Nos. 1 To 7
Related records 10296668

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.89394, 33.36204 (WGS84)
Elevation 2316
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 42 MILES N 67 W OF TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sierra(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Baily Points(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Truth or Consequences(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tularosa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Gila(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(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 Sierra

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 011S 010W 04,05 SW (04); SE (05) New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED WITHIN THE GILA NATIONAL FOREST ON THE WEST FLANK OF THE BLACK RANGE AND JUST NORTH OF SEVENTY-FOUR DRAW.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tin Critical Primary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cassiterite Ore
Specularite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Rhyolite Partly Altered To A White Rock.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.89394, 33.36204

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Intense Fracturing Of Rhyolite Resembles Fault Breccia.

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissure-Fracture Structural Control.

Comments on the geologic information

  • FOR REGIONAL GEOLOGY SEE BLACK RANGE DISTRICT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Black Range District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Walter H. Hearn
    First year 1936

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1947 CONSISTED OF 14 EXPLORATORY OPEN CUTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HARLEY, G.T., 1934 NMBMMR BULL 10, P. 67-72

  • Deposit

    FRIES, C., 1940 USGS BULL 922-M, P. 335-370

  • Deposit

    VOLIN, M.E., RUSSELL, P.L., PRICE, F.L.C. AND MULLEN, D.H., 1947 USBM RI4068, 60 PAGES.

  • Deposit

    LUFKIN, J.L., 1977 AMERICAN MINERALOGIST, VOL 62, P. 100-106

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSITS OCCUR IN AN AREA OF FRACTURED RHYOLITE ABOUT 200 FT. IN DIAMETER AS IRREGULAR VEINLETS FILLING FRACTURES. FRACTURED ZONE IS SIMILAR TO A PIPE OR STOCKWORK WITH VEINLETS IN ALL DIRECTIONS, AND VEINLETS RANGE FROM THIN COATINGS TO 0.5 IN.IN THICKNESS. 7 UNPATENTED CLAIMS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1981 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.

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