Apache Trail Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10009214
MRDS ID D001963
Record type Site
Current site name Apache Trail Mine
Alternate or previous names Claim, Apache Trail

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.35673, 32.60068 (WGS84)
Elevation 1890
Relative position ABOUT 13 MILES S 21 W OF SILVER CITY.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

White Signal(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)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 020S 015W 01,02 NW (01); NE (02) New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION AS SHOWN ON THE WHITE SIGNAL TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Bismuth Critical Primary
Uranium Tertiary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chrysocolla Ore
Copper Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Torbernite Ore
Fluorite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Specularite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitization Of The Granite And Chloritization Of The Diabase.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
    Rock unit name Burro Mountain Granite
    Rock description Burro Mountain Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.35673, 32.60068

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Deposits Occur Along The N 80 W Striking Apache Trail Fault.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N 80 W
    Dip 65 TO 70 NE
    Thickness 2.44M
    Length 609.6M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1890
Year of last production 1940

Mining district

District name White Signal District: Southern Burro Mountains

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner C. M. Russell
    Home office Tyrone, Nm.
    First year 1940
  • Type Owner
    Owner Charles Russel, Tyrone, N.M. And Elsie R. Wiley, Los Angeles, Ca. . State Of New Mexico
    First year 1962

Comments on the production information

  • GILLERMAN, 1964, REPORTED FIVE CARLOADS OF COPPER ORE CONTAINING 5 % CU AND 5 OZ AG/TON WERE SHIPPED BETWEEN 1915 AND 1920, AND 50 TONS OF ORE CONTAINING 1.5 OZ AU/TON AND 4 % BI WAS SHIPPED IN THE 1920'S.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 80.77M
    Overall depth 60.96M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS IN THE EARLY 1950'S CONSISTED OF A 200 FT. SHAFT WITH 265 FT. OF DRIFTS AND CROSSCUTS ON THE 100 FT. LEVEL. THE SHAFT WAS INACCESSIBLE BELOW THE 100 FT. LEVEL. SURFACE WORKINGS CONSISTED OF ABOUT EIGHT SMALL OPEN PITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    LOVERING, T.G., 1956 USGS BULL 1009-L, P. 341-344

  • Deposit

    GILLERMAN, E., 1964 NMBMMR BULL 83, P. 87-89

  • Deposit

    HEDLUND, D.C., 1978 USGS MISCELLANEOUS FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-1041

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSITS OCCUR IN A QUARTZ-SPECULARITE VEIN UP TO 8 FT. THICK AND 2000 FT. IN LENGTH. ONE UNPATENTED CLAIM MINERAL SURVEY NUMBER 2016 COVERING ABOUT 20 ACRES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-75 Miller, M. H. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-AUG-82 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

Beyond USGS

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

External references