1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

San Andres Lead Mine

Occurrence in Dona Ana county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Barium-Barite, Lead
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094525
MRDS ID D009007
Record type Site
Current site name San Andres Lead Mine
Related records 10126414

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.56863, 32.73679 (WGS84)
Elevation 1570
Relative position ABOUT 32 MILES N 23 E OF LAS CRUCES.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Dona Ana(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

San Andres Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

White Sands(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Las Cruces(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Tularosa Valley(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande Closed Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande Closed Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

FWS(Federal land areas administered by FWS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Dona Ana

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 018S 004E 18 SE New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE LEAD MINE IN SECTION 18 AS SHOWN ON THE BEAR PEAK TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary
Lead Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Galena Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result DUNHAM, 1935, ESTIMATED THE GALENA CONTENT WOULD NOT EXCEED 3 %.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Fusselman Dolomite
    Rock description Fusselman Dolomite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Silurian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Silurian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.56863, 32.73679
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Deposit Occurs As A Replacement Of Dolomite Adjacent To A N 15 W Striking Fault.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N 15 W
    Dip STEEPLY SOUTHWEST
    Thickness 6.1M
    Length 60.96M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name San Andres Canyon District: San Andres Mountains; Lead Camp Canyon Area

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Victoria Mining And Smelting Co.
    First year 1904
  • Type Owner
    Owner White Sands Missile Range

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 121.92M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1935 CONSISTED OF SEVERAL OPENCUTS, AN INACCESSIBLE SHAFT AND A 400 FT. TUNNEL WITH A SHALLOW WINZE AND A SHORT CROSSCUT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DUNHAM, K.C., 1935 NMBMMR BULL 11, P. 255-257

  • Deposit

    BACHMAN, G.O., AND MEYERS, D.A., 1963 USGS MISC. GEOL. INV. MAP I-374

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, F.E., FILLO, P.V., AND BLOOM, P.A., 1964 NMBMMR CIRC 76, P. 13

  • Deposit

    BACHMAN, G.O., AND MEYERS, D.A., 1969 USGS BULL 1271-C

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SEVEN UNPATENTED CLAIMS IN 1904.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-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

Maps centered on this site