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Fullerton Claim 1900's

Past Producer in Sierra county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Geologic structures
  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. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10097791
MRDS ID D006627
Record type Site
Current site name Fullerton Claim 1900's
Alternate or previous names Lewellyn Tunnel: Claim, Fullerton
Related records 10126357

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.51727, 32.96955 (WGS84)
Elevation 1654
Relative position ABOUT 19.5 MILES S 55 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

Hillsboro(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hatch(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Las Cruces(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Caballo(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande-Caballo(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 Sierra

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 015S 007W 25 SW New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR ADIT ON THE SOUTHEAST FLANK OF ANIMAS PEAK AS SHOWN ON THE HILLSBORO TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) Upper Santa Fe Group
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Located Just East Of The Copper Flat Monzonite Porphyry.

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control

Comments on the geologic information

  • FOR REGIONAL GEOLOGY SEE HILLSBORO DISTRICT.

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 Hillsboro District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Max Hiltscher
    Home office Hillsboro, N.M.
    First year 1948

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 359.66M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1934 CONSISTED OF ONE TUNNEL 1180 FT. IN LENGTH.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HARLEY, G.T., 1934 NMBMMR BULL 10, P. 125-141, P. 159

  • Deposit

    HEDLUND, D.C., 1977 USGS MAP MF-900-B

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSITS OCCUR IN A VEIN OF FRACTURED ANDESITE BUT MINERALIZATION WAS REPORTED TO BE VERY LOW GRADE. ONE CLAIM COVERING ABOUT 20 ACRES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1981 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

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