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Pca Mine

Producer in Eddy county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Potassium
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  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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106657
MRDS ID D007914
Record type Site
Current site name Pca Mine
Alternate or previous names Potash Company of America Mine
Related records 10296451

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -103.97605, 32.59958 (WGS84)
Elevation 991
Relative position ABOUT 19.5 MILES N 51 E OF CARLSBAD.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Eddy(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tower Hill North(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hobbs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Hobbs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Pecos-Black(hydrologic unit)

Upper Pecos(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Pecos(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Eddy

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 020S 030E 04 S2 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE MAIN SHAFT SHOWN ON THE CLAYTON BASIN TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE.
  • THE DISTRICT COVERS 4 MILES WIDE AND 21 MILES LONG.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Potassium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sylvite Ore
Clay Gangue
Halite Gangue
Iron Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Evaporite
    Rock unit name Salado Formation
    Rock description Salado Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -103.97605, 32.59958
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 2.13M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Year of first production 1934
Year of last production 1981

Mining district

District name Carlsbad Potash District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Potash Co. Of America
    Home office P.O. Box 31, Carlsbad, N.M. 88220
    First year 1981

Comments on the production information

  • ACTIVE.
  • AVERAGE ORE GRADE IS ABOUT 22 % K20. POTASH MINE HAS CAPACITY OF 10,000 ST/D.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 2253020M
    Overall depth 304.8M

Comments on the workings information

  • REPORTED IN 1975 TO BE ABOUT 1000 FT. DEEP WITH 13 WORKING AREAS ON ONE LEVEL AND TOTALING ABOUT 1400 MI. OF WORKINGS. OPERATION USES ROOM AND PILLAR METHODS.
  • ALL WORKINGS IN THE DISTRICT ARE BY OPEN PIT MINING. LARGEST PIT MEASURES 2500 FT DIAMETER, 500 FT DEEP.

Comments on development

  • REPORTED TO BE A 10000 TON PER DAY OPERATION. IN 1975 PCA WAS DRILLING AND DEVELOPING A LANGBEINITE ORE BODY JUST WEST OF THE NASH DRAW MINE.
  • EXTENSIVE EXPLORATION BY THE US BUREAU OF MINES IN 1945 - 50 .

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MANSFIELD, G.R., AND LANG, W.B., 1929 AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGICAL ENGINEERS, TECHNICAL PUBLICATION NO. 212, 17 PAGES

  • Deposit

    STORMS, W.R., 1948 USBM IC-7445, 18 PAGES

  • Deposit

    JONES, C.L., 1954 NMGS GUIDEBOOK FIFTH FIELD CONFERENCE, P. 107-112

  • Deposit

    ALTO, B.R., AND FULTON, R.S., 1965 NMBMMR BULL 87, P. 299-309

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    AUSTIN, G.S., 1976 NMBMMR ANNUAL REPORT, P. 23-29

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1981 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Page, Norman J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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