| Deposit ID | 10246954 |
|---|---|
| MAS/MILS ID | 0350030005 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Taylor Creek Placer - Lode |
| Alternate or previous names | Taylor Creek Placer { Lode |
| Point of reference | Trench |
|---|---|
| Geographic coordinates: | -108.06371, 33.3632 (WGS84) |
| Elevation | 2048 |
| Location accuracy | 10(meters) |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Catron(county)
New Mexico(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Wall Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Mogollon Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Clifton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Upper Gila(hydrologic unit)
Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)
Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)
Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)
Federal lands
Gila National Forest(National Forest)
National Forest FS(Type of land area)
FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | New Mexico | Catron |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Iron | Tertiary |
| Tin Critical | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Cassiterite | Unknown |
| Hematite | Unknown |
| Kaolinite | Unknown |
| Trench (1) | -108.06371, 33.3632 |
|---|
| Strike | N20W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dip | 20E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thickness | 100M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 920M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Area | 10HA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Depth to top | 0M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operation type | Surface-Underground |
|---|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1918 |
| Year of first production | 1939 |
| District name | Taylor Creek |
|---|
| Type of mineral rights | Located Claim |
|---|
| Ownership category | National Forest |
|---|
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | C. E Dawson Of Black Springs |
| Interest | 100 |
| Home office | New Mexico |
| Year | 1975 |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 0350030005 |
FRIES, CARL, 1940, TIN DEPOSITS OF THE BLACK RANGE, CATRON A
SIERRA COUNTIES, NEW MEXICO: U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 922-
355-70.
HARLEY, GEORGE T., 1934, THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF SIE
COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MINES BULL. 10, 2
HARRINGTON, E. R., 1943, TIN IN NEW MEXICO: MINES MAGAZINE,
N. 3, PP. 123, 130.
HILL, J. M., 1921, THE TAYLOR CREEK TIN DEPOSITS, NEW MEXICO
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 725, PP. 347-59.
VOLIN, M. E., ET. AL., 1947, CATRON AND SIERRA COUNTIES TIN
DEPOSITS, NEW MEXICO: U. S. BUREAU OF MINES R. I. 4068, 60
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | REFERENCE TO RECORD 010: HEMATITE IS A DELETERIOUS MINERAL REFERENCE TO RECORD 050: AREA HAD BEEN INVESIGATED BY U.S. G SURVEY AND BUREAU OF MINES STAFF FOR ITS MINERAL POTENTIAL EARLY 1940S. REFERENCE TO RECORD 070: CASSITERITE FOUND AS SMALL, IRREGUL STRINGERS IN FRACTURES OF KAOLINIZED RHYOLITE PORPHYRY. CASSITERITE ALSO FOUND AS PLACER DEPOSIT ADJACENT TO AND B MINERALIZED ZONE IN TAYLOR CREEK GRAVEL BEDS REFERENCE TO RECORD 080: DIMENSIONS OF DEPOSIT IN THIS RECOR (DEPOSIT CHARACTERISTICS PERTAIN TO ALTERED ZONE WHICH CO MANY SMALL, BUT WIDELY DISPERSED CASSITERITE STRINGERS. CASSITERITE STRINGERS ALTHOUGH THEY ARE HIGH GRADE ARE TOO S AND TOO DISPERSED TO BE CONSIDERED AS AN ECONOMIC RESOURSE GRAVEL DEPOSITS CONTAINING CASSITERITE ARE OF LIMITED EXTE |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 12-JUN-95 | Hite, Alan G. | U.S. Bureau of Mines |
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