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Century Mine

Producer in Hidalgo county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Lead, Tungsten
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10107907
MRDS ID D003372
Record type Site
Current site name Century Mine
Alternate or previous names Eighty-Five Group
Related records 10126418

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.75646, 32.31456 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 3.75 MILES S 51 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

Gary(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Hidalgo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 023S 019W 12 SW New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS SHOWN ON USGS MISC. GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-1151. IN 1910 THE MINE WAS REPORTED TO BE LOCATED WEST OF THE EIGHTY-FIVE MINE WHICH WOULD PLACE IT ON THE NINETY-NINE CLAIM OF THE PATENTED EIGHTY-FIVE GROUP OF CLAIMS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Tungsten Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Wulfenite Ore
Limonite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.75646, 32.31456
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Lordsburg District: Virginia Subdistrict

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W., GRATON, L. C., AND GORDON, C. H., 1910, THE ORE DEPOSITS OF NEW MEXICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 68, P 335

  • Deposit

    LASKY, S.G., 1938 USGS BULL 885, PLATE 14

  • Deposit

    CLARK, K.F., 1970 NMGS GUIDEBOOK 21ST FIELD CONFERENCE, P. 107-113

  • Deposit

    THORMAN, C.H., AND DREWES, H., 1978 USGS MISC. GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS MAP, I-1151

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ON SHORT ENE-TRENDING VEINS BETWEEN EMERALD AND ATWOOD VEINS AT CONTACT OF GRANODIORITE AND ANDESITE.
Deposit PRODUCTION BEFORE 1905, UNKNOWN AMOUNT ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-78 Richter, D. H. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-JAN-83 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

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