Ivanhoe Mine

Past Producer in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10296099
MRDS ID D011714
MAS/MILS ID 0350170290
Record type Site
Current site name Ivanhoe Mine
Related records 10014777

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -108.09781, 32.78431 (WGS84)
Elevation 1869
Location accuracy 10(meters)

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 017 S 012 W 33 W2NWSW New Mexico

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Secondary
Lead Primary
Silver Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -108.09781, 32.78431

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Kennecott Copper Corp.
    Home office New York
    Year 1978

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    360 FT DEEP, FIVE LEVELS WHEN SHUT DOWN 1907

  • Deposit

    STARTED CIRCA 1869. SMALL SCALE OPERATION 1940'S-1953

  • Deposit

    USGS BULLETIN 870

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-83 New Mexico Bureau Of Mines And Mineral Resources New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

External references