John Malone

Prospect in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodity 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10096861
MRDS ID D011470
Record type Site
Current site name John Malone
Alternate or previous names Lost Frenchman Tunnel
Related records 10296521

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.49784, 32.57095 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position Within 5 Secs. To Center Of Sites

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Burro Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Animas Valley(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 Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
020S 016W 16 NE4 New Mexico

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) Gila Group, Formation, or Conglomerate

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • JOHN MALONE VEIN (N35E,70SE) OCCURS AT CONTACT BETWEEN PC GRANITE AND BASIC DIKE. FRENCHMAN TUNNEL INTERSECTS NE-TRENDING VEIN

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name White Signal District, Burro Mountains

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GILLERMAN, E., 1964, NMBMMR BULL. 83, P. 80-81

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-84 Davies, Robert C. (Worl, Ron) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references