| Deposit ID | 10101371 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | D000054 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Dewey and White Swan Mines |
| Alternate or previous names | Principal Claims: Dewey, White Swan, Admiral, Canary Bird, U.S.N. |
| Related records | 10272665 |
| Geographic coordinates: | -107.21448, 33.05011 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Relative position | 6 MILES S 20 E OF TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES. |
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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | New Mexico | Sierra |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 014S | 004W | 26,35 | New Mexico |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Vanadium Critical | Primary |
| Lead | Secondary |
| Fluorine-Fluorite Critical | Tertiary |
| Copper | Tertiary |
| Molybdenum | Tertiary |
| Tungsten Critical | Tertiary |
| Zinc Critical | Tertiary |
| Barium-Barite Critical | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Anglesite | Ore |
| Cuprodescloizite | Ore |
| Descloizite | Ore |
| Fluorite | Ore |
| Galena | Ore |
| Vanadinite | Ore |
| Wulfenite | Ore |
| Calcite | Gangue |
| Pyrite | Gangue |
| Barite | Unknown |
| Result | COMPOSITE OF CHANNEL AND GRAB SAMPLES AVERAGED 3.48 % PB, 0.61 % VANADIUM PENTOXIDE AND 15.0 % CALCIUM FLUORIDE. |
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| Host or associated | Associated | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite | ||||||
| |||||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone |
| Rock unit name | Magdalena Group |
| Rock description | Magdalena Group |
| (1) | Abo Formation |
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| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Both |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1900 |
| Discoverer | Ralph Widener |
| Year of first production | 1905 |
| Year of last production | 1911 |
| District name | Sierra Caballos (Palomas Gap) District |
|---|
| Ownership category | BLM Administrative Area |
|---|
| Type | Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | C. J. Moore And C. E. Ross |
| First year | 1944 |
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | R. G. Michael And Associates |
| First year | 1944 |
| Type of workings | Surface/Underground |
|---|---|
| Length | 304.8M |
| Overall depth | 121.92M |
| Overall width | 3.66M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | D000054 |
HESS, 1913; KELLEY AND SILVERS, 1952-SEE USGS BULL. 1316
HARLEY, G.T., 1934 NMBMMR BULL 10, P203
NMBMMR, 1965, BULL 87, P202, P226
NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | THE VEINS ARE 2 FT TO 20 FT WIDE. THEY ARE OPEN TEXTURED, SPONGY AND CONTAIN SOLUTION CAVITIES RANGING IN SIZE FROM SMALL VUGS TO ELONGATE CAVES. |
| Deposit | THE DEWEY AND WHITE SWAN MINES HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO CONTAIN AN ESTIMATED 26000 TONS OF MEASURABLE, INDICATED AND INFERRED ORE WITH AN AVERAGE GRADE OF 0.53 % VANADIUM PENTOXIDE AND AT THE 1944 PRICES THIS ORE COULD NOT BE ECONOMICALLY MINED. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-JUN-73 | Fischer, Richard P. | New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources | |
| Updater | 01-FEB-81 | Menzie, David | New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources |
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