Little Johnnie Claim

Past Producer in Sierra county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Manganese
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 10097805
MRDS ID D007104
Record type Site
Current site name Little Johnnie Claim
Related records 10175568

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.23809, 33.10289 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 2.25 MILES S 19 E 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

Palomas Gap(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Truth or Consequences(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tularosa(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 014S 004W 10 S2 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • CLAIM IS LOCATED IN THE SOUTH-CENTRAL PART OF SEC. 10.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrolusite Ore
Wad Ore
Calcite Gangue
Jasper Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Magdalena Group
    Rock description Magdalena Group
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.23809, 33.10289

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Deposit Occurs Along N 30 To 40 E Striking Hot Springs Fault.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike WEST
    Dip 35 SOUTH
    Thickness 1.22M
    Length 9.14M
    Width 2.44M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control.

Comments on the geologic information

  • FOR REGIONAL GEOLOGY SEE SIERRA CABALLOS DISTRICT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1953

Mining district

District name Sierra Caballos District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner I. P. Kirk
    First year 1950
  • Type Owner
    Owner Blanchard Hanson
    Home office Truth Or Consequences, N.M.
    First year 1960

Comments on the production information

  • ONLY KNOWN PRODUCTION, IN 1953, CONSISTED OF 6.2 TONS OF SORTED ORE CONTAINING 24.1 % MN.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Length 3.05M
    Overall depth 2.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1961 CONSISTED OF AN OPEN CUT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KELLEY, V.C., AND SILVER, C., 1952 U.N.M. PUB. 4, FIG. 2

  • Deposit

    FARNHAM, L.L., 1961 USBM IC-8030, P. 117-118

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

  • Production

    FARNHAM, L.L., 1961 P. 117

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSITS OCCUR AS SMALL IRREGULAR BODIES ALONG MINOR WEST-STRIKING FRACTURES. THE MINERALIZED FRACTURES RANGE FROM 2 FT. TO 4 FT. WIDE, AND HAVE BEEN EXPOSED IN A TRENCH TO A DEPTH OF 8 FT. AND A LENGTH OF ABOUT 30 FT. 1 UNPATENTED CLAIM.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-81 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