Scales Creek Deposits 1936

Past Producer in Sierra county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Tin, Iron, Zeolites
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. 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. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10097794
MRDS ID D006810
Record type Site
Current site name Scales Creek Deposits 1936
Alternate or previous names Claims, Snowbank No. 1, Snowbank No. 2
Related records 10175361

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.91589, 33.40288 (WGS84)
Elevation 2316
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 44 MILES N 63 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

Taylor Peak(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 010S 010W 30 S2 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED ON THE WEST FLANK OF THE BLACK RANGE IN THE GILA NATIONAL FOREST ON THE WEST SIDE OF SCALES CREEK JUST NORTH OF THE JUNCTION WITH TAYLOR CREEK.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tin Critical Primary
Iron Tertiary
Zeolites Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ALTHOUGH TIN CONTENT MAY BE AS HIGH AS 12 POUNDS/TON, THE OREBEARING STRINGERS ARE TOO SMALL TO BE MINED SEPARATELY AND BULK MINING METHODS WOULD GREATLY REDUCE THE AVERAGE GRADE OF THE ORE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cassiterite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Specularite Ore
Chalcedony Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Ore-Bearing Porphyritic Rhyolite Altered To Porous, 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) -107.91589, 33.40288

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 0.03M
    Length 9.14M

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 Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1936
Year of first production 1945
Year of last production 1945

Mining district

District name Black Range District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner De Lope, Inman, Bode, Hearn
    First year 1940

Comments on the production information

  • ESTIMATED TOTAL PRODUCTION OF 1350 POUNDS OF ORE CONTAINING ABOUT 50 % SN.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1947 CONSISTED OF 5 OPENCUTS, 9 TRENCHES AND 3 VERY SHALLOW SHAFTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    VOLIN, M.E., RUSSELL, P.L., PRICE, F.L.C. AND MULLEN,D.H., 1947 USBM RI 4068, 60 PAGES.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

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

  • Production

    M.E. VOLIN AND OTHERS, 1947 P. 9

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSITS OCCUR IN ZONES OF ALTERED RHYOLITE AS WIDELY SCATTERED, NORTHERLY TRENDING STRINGERS. THE STRINGERS RANGE FROM THIN FILMS TO ONE IN THICK AND FROM ONE FT. TO 30 FT. LONG. 2 UNPATENTED CLAIMS COVERING ABOUT 40 ACRES.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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