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Goats Point Prospect

Past Producer in Taos county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Bismuth
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  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. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10097779
MRDS ID D001948
Record type Site
Current site name Goats Point Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.81057, 36.24922 (WGS84)
Elevation 2286
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 17 MILES S 52 W OF TAOS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Taos(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Trampas(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Taos(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Raton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Rio Grande(hydrologic unit)

Upper Rio Grande(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(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 Taos

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 023N 011E 06 CENTER OF S2 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • REPORTED TO BE ABOUT ONE MILE EAST-NORTHEAST OF THE GLEN WOODY BRIDGE NEAR THE TOP OF A STEEP BLUFF OVERLOOKING THE RIO GRANDE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Bismuth Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bismutite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Ortega Formation
    Rock description Ortega Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.81057, 36.24922
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Picuris District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Delfino Medina And Bernabe Gurule
    First year 1950
  • Type Owner
    Owner Elmer Burch And Albert Sherman
    First year 1950

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSISTED OF A SMALL OPEN CUT AND SEVERAL PROSPECT PITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MONTGOMERY, A., 1953 NMBMMR BULL 30, 89 PAGES

  • Deposit

    SCHILLING, J.H., 1960 NMBMMR BULL 71, P. 103

  • Deposit

    COOPER, J.R., 1962 USGS MINERAL INVESTIGATIONS RESOURCE MAP MR-22

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-75 Miller, M. H. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-JAN-82 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

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