Bonney-Misers Chest & 85 Mine & Plt

Plant in Hidalgo county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Land status
  9. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10174238
MRDS ID D003347
MAS/MILS ID 0350230005
Record type Site
Current site name Bonney-Misers Chest & 85 Mine & Plt
Alternate or previous names Miser's Chest, Bonney Bonnie, Teddy, Sunrise, Chance, Cochise, Shoofly, August, August #2, Lordsburg, Weststar
Related records 10010007

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -108.76813, 32.30482 (WGS84)
Elevation 1420
Location accuracy 100(meters)

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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Gold Primary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -108.76813, 32.30482

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Plant type Leach

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Westar Corp
    Interest 100
    Home office New Mexico
    Year 1990

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM PROD TABULATIONS OWN/OP: FEDERAL RESOURCES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 03-JAN-1997 Gosling U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

External references