Bert Hoover Lode No. 1

Past Producer in San Miguel county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Molybdenum, Bismuth, Tungsten, Copper
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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10009207
MRDS ID D001950
Record type Site
Current site name Bert Hoover Lode No. 1
Alternate or previous names Mine: Santo Nino, Romero, Hoover, Claims: Santo Nino No. 1-10

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.40723, 35.73589 (WGS84)
Elevation 2633
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 15.2 MILES N 48 W OF LAS VEGAS, NM

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Miguel(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

El Porvenir(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Santa Fe(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Santa Fe(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Pecos Headwaters(hydrologic unit)

Upper Pecos(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Pecos(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Santa Fe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Pecos Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico San Miguel

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 017N;017N;018N;018N 014E;015E;014E;015E 01;06;36;31 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS ESTIMATED FROM HARLEY'S (1946, P. 56) DESCRIPTION. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Molybdenum Primary
Bismuth Critical Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bismuthinite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Fluorite Gangue
Malachite Gangue
Muscovite Gangue
Orthoclase Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.40723, 35.73589

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Hermit Peak Thrust Fault

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR
    Width 2.44M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Vein

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE PRECAMBRIAN HAS NO FORMAL NAME IN THIS AREA.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1950
Discoverer Margarito Romero, Las,Vegas, Nm.
Year of first production 1914
Year of last production 1916

Mining district

District name El Porvenir District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner M. A. Romero, Eulogio Duran, J. L. Lopez, Charles And James Lujan
    Home office Las Vegas, Nm.
    First year 1946

Comments on the production information

  • SEVERAL HUNDRED POUNDS OF COARSE, HIGH-GRADE MOLYBDENITE ORE WERE SHIPPED IN 1914; 25 TONS OF MOLYBDENITE ORE WERE MINED IN 1916 BUT APPARENTLY NOT SHIPPED.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 243.84M
    Overall depth 88.39M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 90-FOOT SHAFT AND AN 800-FOOT ADIT (200 FEET BELOW THE SHAFT.).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COOPER, J. R., 1962, BISMUTH OF U.S.: USGS MR - 22

  • Deposit

    BUSH, F.V., 1915, "THE ROMERO MOLYBDENUM MINE", MIN. AND SCI. PRESS, V. 110, P. 354

  • Deposit

    HORNTON, F.W., 1916, USBM BULL 111, P. 78

  • Deposit

    HARLEY, G.T., 1940, NMBMMR BULL 15, P. 56-57

  • Deposit

    SCHILLING, J.H., 1965, NMBMMR BULL 76, P. 43

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MOLYBDENITE, CHALCOPYRITE, SCHEELITE AND BISMUTHINITE OCCUR TOGETHER AS SMALL, SCATTERED POCKETS IN A WHITE, COARSE GRAINED PEGMATIC QUARTZ VEIN STRIKING N 60 E. THE VEIN CUTS PINK, COARSE-GRAINED GRANITE (OR QUARTZ MONZONITE AND CONTAINS SOME ORTHOCLASE, MUSCOVITE, AND FLUORITE. ABUNDANT BROWN LIMONITE AND CANARY-YELLOW FERROMOLYBDITE AND SOME MALACHITE AND AZURITE ARE PRESENT AT THE SURFACE.
Deposit Discovery Year: 1900'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-75 Miller, M. H. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-84 Murray, Diane U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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