Ellis Deposit 1910's

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. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10101670
MRDS ID D007094
Record type Site
Current site name Ellis Deposit 1910's
Related records 10224206

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.25642, 33.13428 (WGS84)
Elevation 1311
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position LOCATED WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS 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

Cuchillo(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Sierra

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 013S 004W 33 SW New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • DEPOSIT WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF LOCUS STREET BETWEEN FIFTH AND SEVENTH AVENUE AND IS PRESENTLY SUBDIVIDED AND DEVELOPED.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Psilomelane Ore
Wad Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Santa Fe
    Rock description Santa Fe
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pleistocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) Pennsylvanian rocks, undivided

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Mineralized Solutions Associated With Numerous Hot Springs In This Area.

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike NORTH
    Dip EAST
    Thickness 6.1M
    Length 243.84M
    Width 60.96M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralized Solutions Cemented And Partially Replaced Host Rock.

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
Discovery year 1915
Year of first production 1941
Year of last production 1954

Mining district

District name Sierra Caballos District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Tower Mining And Refining Co.
    First year 1954

Comments on the production information

  • DURING 1953-54 TOWER MINING AND REFINING CO. PRODUCED 16877 LONG TONS OF CONCENTRATES AVERAGING 18.5% MN AND AN ADDITIONAL 198 TONS OF SORTED ORE CONTAINING 17.7% MN WAS PRODUCED BY OTHER LESSEES.

Comments on the workings information

  • NO WORKINGS EXISTED IN THE 1960'S, THE DEPOSIT WAS MINED BY OPEN-PIT METHODS AND THE ORE WAS REPORTED TO BE SO SOFT THAT NO EXPLOSIVES WERE USED.

Comments on development

  • TOWER MINING AND REFINING CO. BUILT A HEAVY-MEDIA SEPARATION PLANT AND OPERATED UNTIL THE ORE WAS EXHAUSTED IN MID-1954.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WELLS, E.H., 1918 NMBMMR BULL 2, P. 61-63

  • Deposit

    KELLEY, V.C., AND SILVER, C., 1952 U.N.M. PUB. 4, P. 199, P. 208-209, FIG. 2

  • Deposit

    FARNHAM, L.L., 1961 USBM IC-8030, P 111-113

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

  • Production

    FARNHAM, L.L., 1961 P. 111

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT OCCURRED AS A REPLACEMENT OF SAND GRAINS AND AS A CEMENTING MATERIAL IN A SEMI-CONSOLIDATED BED OF SANDSTONE DIPPING VERY GENTLY EAST. THE HIGHER GRADE PORTION OF THE DEPOSIT COVERED AN AREA ROUGHLY 800 FT. LONG BY 200 FT. WIDE AND WAS FROM 10 FT. TO 20 FT. THICK.
Deposit Discovery Year: 1910'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-81 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

Beyond USGS

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