1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Kearney Mine

Past Producer in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold, Iron
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  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. Production statistics
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10111401
MRDS ID D009718
Record type Site
Current site name Kearney Mine
Alternate or previous names Claim Patented In 1893, Kearney
Related records 10174250

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.07728, 32.80817 (WGS84)
Elevation 1996
Relative position ABOUT 12 MILES N 80 E OF SILVER CITY.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Santa Rita Mine(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Mimbres(hydrologic unit)

Mimbres(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Mimbres(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 017S 012W 22;27 SW (22); NW (27) New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS SHOWN ON THE SANTA RITA TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Lead Secondary
Copper Secondary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary
Iron Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Magnetite Unknown

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 60
USGS model code 18c
Deposit model name Skarn Zn-Pb
Mark3 model number 22

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Fierro-Hanover Stock
    Rock description Fierro-Hanover Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Lake Valley Limestone;Oswaldo
    Rock description Lake Valley Limestone;Oswaldo

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.07728, 32.80817
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralized Solutions Replaced Favorable Host Rock, Limestone Replacement Along Two Steeply-Dipping Faults And Beneath Thick Diorite Sill.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Year of last production 1961

Mining district

District name Fierro-Hanover District; Central District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Peru Mining Co.
    First year 1937
    Last year 1970
  • Type Owner
    Owner Peru Mining Co. , U.S. Smelting , Refining And Mining Co. ; U.V. Industries
    First year 1937
    Last year 1972

Production statistics

  • Year 1970
    Period 1943-1970
    Material ORE (1)
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^7.60% Zn
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Ore Zinc Zinc 8wt-pct

Comments on the production information

  • MINE WAS IDLE FROM 1954 TO 1955 AND FROM 1958 TO 1960. PB GRADES WERE 0.35 TO 1.5%. ORE CONTAINED VERY LITTLE COPPER (0.X%) AND A FRACTION OF AN OZ PER TO AG

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 609.6M
    Overall depth 190.5M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1960 CONSISTED OF TWO 625 FT. VERTICAL SHAFTS AND ABOUT 50,000 FT. OF DRIFTING ON THREE LEVELS.

Comments on development

  • MAGNETITE MINED PROBABLY IN 1930'S. EXPLORED BY ABOUT 1000 FT CHURN DRILLING 1931-1934. JULY 1937 OPTIONED BY PERU MINING CO. WHICH DID 12,000 FT OF CORE DRILLING. MINE DEVELOPMENT BEGAN MARCH 1942 BY SINKING TWO SHAFTS TO 375 FT AND 675 FT DEPTHS. ZINC MINING STARTED IN 1943 AND CONTINUED WITH BRIEF INTERUPTIONS UNTIL 1967.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ANDERSON, E. C., 1957 NMBMMR BULL 39, P. 55-57

  • Deposit

    HERNON, R. M., JONES, W. R., AND MOORE, S. L., 1964 USGS GEOLOGIC MAP, GQ-306

  • Deposit

    JONES, W. R., HERNON, R. M., AND MOORE, S. L., 1967 USGS PP 555, 144 PAGES

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    STORMS, W.R., AND FAUST, J.W., 1949, U.S. BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7507, 11 P.

  • Deposit

    HILLESLAND, L.L., ET. AL., 1994, GENERAL GEOLOGY OF THE CONTINENTAL MINE, GRANT COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: COBRE MINING CO., UNPUBLISHED REPORT, 22 P.

  • Production

    HILLESLAND, ET. AL. (1994), P. 2.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ONE PATENTED CLAIM MINERAL SURVEY NUMBER 680 COVERING 18.53 ACRES. ORE BODIES REPLACE LAKE VALLEY LIMESTONE AT SOUTHEAST MARGIN OF FIERRO-HANOVER STOCK ALONG TWO STEEPLY-DIPPING FAULTS AND BENEATH THICK DIORITE SILL.
Deposit RECORD # D011683 BY CLINT E. SEANOR HAS BEEN INCORPORATED. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-82 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-JUL-84 Seanor, Clint E. (Worl, Ron) 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.

External references

Maps centered on this site