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New Mexico Potash Corp.

Producer in Eddy county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Potassium, Salt
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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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Mineral rights holdings
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Production statistics
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10126242
MAS/MILS ID 0350150005
Record type Site
Current site name New Mexico Potash Corp.
Alternate or previous names Kermac Potash Co. Operation, Hobbs Potash Facility

Comments on the site names

  • OTHER NAMES:HOBBS POTASH FACILITY DEPOSIT; NEW MEXICO POTASH CO, HOBBS PLANT; HOBBS PLANT.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -103.78239, 32.50434 (WGS84)
Elevation 1097
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Eddy(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Williams Sink(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 021 S 031 E 04 SWSE New Mexico

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Potassium Primary
Salt Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Halite Unknown
Polyhalite Unknown
Sylvite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -103.78239, 32.50434
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N00S
    Dip 01E
    Thickness 1.4M
    Depth to top 426.7M
    Field Value
    MAS Matrix # 1
    MAS Column # 1
    Type of Orebody #1 SEDIMENTARY
    Shape of Orebody #1 TABULAR
    Primary mode of Origin EVAPORATION
    Secondary mode of Origin SEDIMENTATION
    Primary Ore Control BEDDING
    Secondary Ore Control LITHOLOGY
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. NONE
    Strike And Dip N00S:01E
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 3.7
    Date of Last Modification 820120
  • Area 800HA
    Field Value
    Total Surface Area (HA) 800
    Date of Last Modification 910418

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant Yes
Discovery year 1930
Mining method Open Stope - Room and Pillar
Year of first production 1965
Milling method Crystallization

Mining district

District name Carlsbad

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Federal Lease
Type of mineral rights State Lease
Type of mineral rights Fee Ownership

Land status

Ownership category Mixed

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Vertac Chemical Corp.
    ID 2900170
    Interest 100
    Home office Tennessee
    Year 1987
    First year 1987
  • Type Operator
    Owner New Mexico Potash Corp. (Sub Of Trans-Resources Inc.)
    ID 2900170
    Home office New Mexico

Comments on the ownership information

  • KERR MCGEE SOLD TO NEW MEXICO POTASH CORP. NOW OWNED BY TRANS-RESOURCES INC. ACCORDING TO RANDOL MINING DIRECTORY 96-97, THE NEW OWNER IS TRANS-RESOURCES, INC.

Production statistics

  • Year 1965
    Description Total Potassium Salts Production 8805 Metric Tons For The Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Potassium Potassium 8805mt
  • Year 1966
    Description Total Potassium Salts Production 270098 Metric Tons For The Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Potassium Potassium 270098mt
  • Year 1967
    Description Total Potassium Salts Production 401401 Metric Tons For The Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Potassium Potassium 401401mt
  • Year 1968
    Description Total Potassium Salts Production 454508 Metric Tons For The Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Potassium Potassium 454508mt
  • Year 1969
    Description Total Potassium Salts Production 426451 Metric Tons For The Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Potassium Potassium 426451mt
  • Year 1970
    Description Total Potassium Salts Production 472607 Metric Tons For The Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Potassium Potassium 472607mt
  • Year 1971
    Description Total Potassium Salts Production 470342 Metric Tons For The Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Potassium Potassium 470342mt
  • Year 1972
    Description Total Potassium Salts Production 523040 Metric Tons For The Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Potassium Potassium 523040mt
  • Year 1973
    Description Total Potassium Salts Production 512249 Metric Tons For The Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Potassium Potassium 512249mt
  • Year 1974
    Description Total Potassium Salts Production 494724 Metric Tons For The Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Potassium Potassium 494724mt
  • Year 1975
    Description Total Potassium Salts Production 408032 Metric Tons For The Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Potassium Potassium 408032mt
  • Year 1976
    Description Total Potassium Salts Production 446952 Metric Tons For The Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Potassium Potassium 446952mt
  • Year 1977
    Description Total Potassium Salts Production 491131 Metric Tons For The Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Potassium Potassium 491131mt
  • Year 1978
    Description Total Potassium Salts Production 525957 Metric Tons For The Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Potassium Potassium 525957mt
  • Year 1979
    Description Total Potassium Salts Production 524076 Metric Tons For The Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Potassium Potassium 524076mt
  • Year 1980
    Description Total Potassium Salts Production 506996 Metric Tons For The Year
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Potassium Potassium 506996mt
  • Year 1986
    Description Mt Product 308000 Mt Product
  • Year 1987
    Description Mt Product-Projected Production 263000 Mt Product

Comments on the production information

  • PERCENT RECOVERY FOR K2O IN RECORD A IS ACTUALLY 78.39.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 508M
    Field Value
    MAS Development Schedule # 1
    Mining Record # 1
    Status of Mining Method ACTUAL
    Mining Method ROOM AND PILLAR 10-34
    Swell Factor .64
    Percent Waste Rock 5
    Percent Recovery 80
    Hardness of Rock SOFT SEMIPLASTIC WITH LITTLE WATER
    Rock Characteristics ONE SYSTEM OF WEAKNESS PLANES
    Rock Support Chars. SUPPORTING MAY BACK SLAB
    Mine Support Chars. POST, HEADBOARD, CAPS, ROOF BOLTS
    Number of Shafts 2
    1st Condition of Workings OPEN
    2nd Condition of Workings PART ACCESSIBLE
    Capacity 8163
    Capacity Units MT ORE/DAY
    Unit Production Cost 4.77
    Units of Production $/MT ORE
    Operating Days per Year 365
    Operating Shifts per Day 3
    Year of Information 1981

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CONLEY, J. E., AND E. P. PARTRIDGE. POTASH SALTS FROM TEX-

  • Deposit

    AS-NEW MEXICO POLYHALITE DEPOSITS. BUMINES BULL. 459,

  • Deposit

    1944, 251 PP.

  • Deposit

    HAYES, E. P. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON CORE DRILLING IN THE

  • Deposit

    SALT BEDS OF WESTERN TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO: TESTS 13 TO

  • Deposit

    24. BUMINES IC 6679, JANUARY 1933, 11 PP.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES. MICROFILM COMPILATION OF PROPRIETARY,

  • Deposit

    INDIVIDUAL COMPANY, PRODUCTION STATISTICS (FOR THE YEARS

  • Deposit

    1965 THROUGH 1980).

  • Ownership

    RANDOL MINING DIRECTORY 1996-97, P.283.

  • Deposit

    AUSTIN, G. S. POTASH OCCURRENCES IN NEW MEXICO. UNPUB-

  • Deposit

    LISHED REPORT, CONTAINING COMPANY PROPRIETARY INFO., FOR

  • Deposit

    THE U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, PREP. BY N. MEX. BUR. OF MINES

  • Deposit

    AND MINERAL RES. (GRANT G0264007), NOV. 8, 1976, 94 PP.

  • Deposit

    HILLS, J. M. PERMIAN BASIN FIELD AREA, WEST TEXAS AND

  • Deposit

    SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO, IN SALINE DEPOSITS, ED. BY R. B.

  • Deposit

    MATTOX. GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA SPECIAL PAPER 88,

  • Deposit

    1968, PP. 17-27.

  • Deposit

    LIDDELL, B. KERMAC'S MAN SHAFT BORED IN A HURRY. METAL

  • Deposit

    MINING & PROCESSING, JANUARY 1964, PP. 42-47 AND 50.

  • Deposit

    MINING ENGINEERING. CONTINUOUS MINERS ADDED AT HOBBS. FEB-

  • Deposit

    RUARY 1979, P. 114.

  • Deposit

    MINING WORLD. KERR-MCGEE'S 1,500 TON K20 MILL CONTRACT HELD

  • Deposit

    BY WKE, IN WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE MINING WORLD--NEW MEX-

  • Deposit

    ICO. JANUARY 1963, P. 42.

  • Deposit

    -----. NEW MEXICO, IN WHAT'S GOING ON IN MINING WORLD (CON-

  • Deposit

    TAINS ONE PARAGRAPH CONCERNING KERMAC POTASH COMPANY).

  • Deposit

    MAY 1963, P. 45.

  • Deposit

    NEW MEXICO BUSINESS. KERMAC, IN MINING--POTASH. MARCH

  • Deposit

    1966, P. 23.

  • Deposit

    SANDIA LABORATORIES. GEOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION REPORT,

  • Deposit

    WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT (WIPP) SITE, SOUTHEASTERN NEW

  • Deposit

    MEXICO, ED. BY D. W. POWERS, S. J. LAMBERT, S. E. SHAF-

  • Deposit

    FER, L. R. HILL, AND W. D. WEART. REPORT FOR THE U. S.

  • Deposit

    DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, AUGUST 1978, 2 V.

  • Deposit

    SINGLETON, R. H. POTASH. BUMINES MCP-11, FEBRUARY 1978,

  • Deposit

    27 PP.

  • Deposit

    SWALES, J. M. SHAFT SINKING AND UNDERGROUND DEVELOPMENT AT

  • Deposit

    THE KERMAC POTASH MINE. MINING ENGINEERING, DECEMBER

  • Deposit

    1966, PP. 69-72.

  • Deposit

    THOMASON, J. C. POTASH MARKETS DURING THE SEVENTIES. MI-

  • Deposit

    NING YEAR BOOK, COLO. MINING ASSOC., 1971, PP. 27-37.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT. POTASH LEASING IN SOUTH-

  • Deposit

    EASTERN NEW MEXICO. PRELIMINARY REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL

  • Deposit

    ANALYSIS RECORD, OCTOBER 1975.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES. THE UNITED STATES POSITION AND OUT-

  • Deposit

    LOOK IN POTASH. IC 8487, 1970, 47 PP.

  • Deposit

    -----. VALUATION OF POTASH OCCURRENCES WITHIN THE WASTE

  • Deposit

    ISOLATION PILOT PLANT SITE IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO.

  • Deposit

    UNPUBLISHED REPORT, CONTAINING COMPANY PROPRIETARY INFO.,

  • Deposit

    FOR THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, NOVEMBER 1977, 241 PP.

  • Deposit

    U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. CLAYTON BASIN QUADRANGLE (TOPOGRA-

  • Deposit

    PHIC MAP), NEW MEXICO. 15-MINUTE SERIES, 1965 PHOTOREV.,

  • Deposit

    SCALE 1:62,500.

  • Deposit

    -----. HOBBS QUADRANGLE (TOPOGRAPHIC MAP), NEW MEXICO--TEX-

  • Deposit

    AS. 1 DEG. X 2 DEG. SERIES, 1973 REV., SCALE 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    -----. NASH DRAW QUADRANGLE (TOPOGRAPHIC MAP), NEW MEXICO--

  • Deposit

    EDDY CO. 15-MINUTE SERIES, 1965 PHOTOREV., SCALE 1:62,

  • Deposit

    500.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit AT THIS TIME, 4/87, THE PROPERTY IS UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP. NEW MEXICO POTASH CORP. A 100% SUBSIDIARY OF VERTAC CHEMICAL CORP. MINING RATE (1987) PROJECTED PRODUCTION IS 263,000 MT PRODUCTION IS 263000 MT PRODUCT, ABOUT 45 PCT CAPACITY.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 28-JUL-97 Osmonson U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Current status (per MSHA)

StatusActive since 07/04/1976
MSHA mine ID2900170
Mine name (MSHA)Intrepid Potash East
Current operatorIntrepid Potash-New Mexico, LLC
Current controller (parent)Intrepid Potash Inc
Mine typeUnderground (Metal / non-metal)

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