National Group

Past Producer in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold, 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. Controls for ore emplacement
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Ownership information
  10. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000367
MRDS ID D009767
Record type District
Current site name National Group
Alternate or previous names National Mines, Copper King Mine, Silver King Mine: Claims of the National Group, Last Chance, Copper King, Esmeraldo, National, American Extension, Maine Extension, Silver King, Silver Queen

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.42141, 31.91074 (WGS84)
Relative position ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE MAIN SHAFT ON THE COPPER KING CLAIM.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Playas Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Animas(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Douglas(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Playas Lake(hydrologic unit)

Mimbres(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Mimbres(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NM)

Bureau of Land Management NM BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Grant

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Secondary
Gold Secondary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.42141, 31.91074

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault/fracture

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Year of first production 1904
Year of last production 1929

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner MAUDE J. FOWLES
    Home office HACHITA, N. M.
    Year 1937
  • Type Owner
    Owner CHARLES FOWLES
    Year 1929

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LASKY, S. G., 1938 ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, VOL 33, NO 4, P. 365-389

  • Deposit

    LASKY, S. G., 1947 USGS PP 208, P. 87-89

  • Deposit

    ZELLER, R. A., 1970 NMBMMR BULL 96, 22 PAGES, 1 PLATE

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

Beyond USGS

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