Fierro-Hanover District

Past Producer in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Zinc, Lead, Iron, Copper, Manganese, Arsenic
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Alteration
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000400
MRDS ID D012102
Record type District
Current site name Fierro-Hanover District
Alternate or previous names Central City, Fierro, Hanover, Hanover-Fierro, Hanover Gulch, Ivanhoe

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.08281, 32.83401 (WGS84)
Relative position LOCATION IS ACCURATE FOR THE UNION HILL-REPUBLIC MINES. THIS DISTRICT HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY INCLUDED IN THE CENTRAL AND MIMBRES DISTRICTS. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1979

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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Lead Primary
Iron Primary
Copper Secondary
Manganese Critical Secondary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Alteration

  • (Local) SERICITIZATION

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 60
USGS model code 18c
Deposit model name Skarn Zn-Pb
Mark3 model number 22

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.08281, 32.83401

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description HANOVER-FIERRO STOCK; HANOVER-FIERRO DOMAL ANTICLINE; FT. BAYARD ARCH; FAULTS
Type of structure Regional
Structure description HANOVER-FIERRO DOMAL ANTICLINE; HANOVER-FIERRO STOCK; FT. BAYARD ARCH; FAULTS

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault/fracture

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Discovery year 1880
Year of first production 1880
Year of last production 1982

Mining district

District name FIERRO-HANOVER DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W., GRATON, L.C., AND GORDON, C.H., 1910, USGS PP 68, P. 305-315

  • Deposit

    KNIFFEN, L.M., 1930, USBM IC-6361, 20 PAGES

  • Deposit

    SPENCER, A.C., AND PAIGE, S., 1935, USGS BULL 859, P. 66-69

  • Deposit

    LASKY, S.G., 1936, USGS BULL 870, 141 PAGES

  • Deposit

    ANDERSON, E.C., 1957, NMBMMR BULL 39

  • Deposit

    HERNON, R.M., JONES, W.R., AND MOORE, S.L., 1965, NMGS GUIDEBOOK, 16TH FIELD CONFERENCE, P. 175-184

  • Deposit

    JONES, W.R., 1965, NMBMMR BULL 87, P. 160-176

  • Deposit

    JONES, W.R., HERNON, R.M., AND MOORE, S.L., 1967, USGS PP 555, 141 P.

  • Deposit

    HARRER, C.M., AND KELLY, F.J., 1963, USBM IC-8190, P. 27-30

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

Beyond USGS

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