Animas Mine

Past Producer in Hidalgo county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Fluorine-Fluorite
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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10101445
MRDS ID D003422
Record type Site
Current site name Animas Mine
Alternate or previous names Doubtful Mine: Claims In 1950's, Doubtful Nos. 1 and 2

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.77785, 32.12819 (WGS84)
Elevation 1425
Relative position ABOUT 16 MILES S 15 W OF LORDSBURG.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hidalgo(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Swallow Fork Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lordsburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Animas Valley(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Hidalgo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 025S 019W 14,15 SW (14); SE (15) New Mexico

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result WILLIAMS, 1966, REPORTED A GRAB SAMPLE OF STOCKPILED ROCK CONTAINED 43.0 % CAF2
Result 28.6 % SIO2
Result 19.5 % CACO3

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.77785, 32.12819

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description N 20 W Trending Fault

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL, LENSES
    Strike N 20 W
    Dip 80 SW
    Thickness 91.44M
    Length 121.92M
    Width 3.05M
    Depth to bottom 91.44M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1942
Discoverer W.A. Ballard
Year of first production 1942
Year of last production 1953

Mining district

District name Animas District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Don Still
    First year 1953
  • Type Owner
    Owner Don Still
    Home office Lordsburg, N.M.
    First year 1950

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 234.7M
    Overall depth 91.44M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-78 Richter, D. H. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-83 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-JAN-83 Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.) New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-FEB-90 Bolm, Karen S. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.