Taylor Creek Placer - Lode

Past Producer in Catron county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Iron, Tin
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Mineral rights holdings
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

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

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Trench
Geographic coordinates: -108.06371, 33.3632 (WGS84)
Elevation 2048
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Catron

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary
Tin Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cassiterite Unknown
Hematite Unknown
Kaolinite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Trench (1) -108.06371, 33.3632

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N20W
    Dip 20E
    Thickness 100M
    Length 920M
    Area 10HA
    Depth to top 0M
    Field Value
    Type of Orebody #1 PLACER
    Shape of Orebody #1 OTHER
    Type of Orebody #2 SHEAR ZONE
    Primary mode of Origin HYDROTHERMAL
    Secondary mode of Origin SEDIMENTATION
    Primary Ore Control FRACTURING
    Secondary Ore Control IGNEOUS
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. INTENSE
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 INTERM ARGILLIC
    Strike And Dip N20W:20E
    Minimum Depth to Top 0
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Total Surface Area (HA) 10
    Date of Last Modification 780213

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1918
Year of first production 1939

Mining district

District name Taylor Creek

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner C. E Dawson Of Black Springs
    Interest 100
    Home office New Mexico
    Year 1975

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FRIES, CARL, 1940, TIN DEPOSITS OF THE BLACK RANGE, CATRON A

  • Deposit

    SIERRA COUNTIES, NEW MEXICO: U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 922-

  • Deposit

    355-70.

  • Deposit

    HARLEY, GEORGE T., 1934, THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF SIE

  • Deposit

    COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MINES BULL. 10, 2

  • Deposit

    HARRINGTON, E. R., 1943, TIN IN NEW MEXICO: MINES MAGAZINE,

  • Deposit

    N. 3, PP. 123, 130.

  • Deposit

    HILL, J. M., 1921, THE TAYLOR CREEK TIN DEPOSITS, NEW MEXICO

  • Deposit

    GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 725, PP. 347-59.

  • Deposit

    VOLIN, M. E., ET. AL., 1947, CATRON AND SIERRA COUNTIES TIN

  • Deposit

    DEPOSITS, NEW MEXICO: U. S. BUREAU OF MINES R. I. 4068, 60

General comments

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 12-JUN-95 Hite, Alan G. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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