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General Jerry Boyle Mine

Past Producer in Hidalgo county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead
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  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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010011
MRDS ID D003354
Record type Site
Current site name General Jerry Boyle Mine
Alternate or previous names General Gerry Boyle Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.73591, 32.32012 (WGS84)
Elevation 1402
Relative position ABOUT 2.25 MILES S 39 W OF LORDSBURG.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hidalgo(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lordsburg(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lordsburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Animas Valley(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Hidalgo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 023S 018W 07 CENTER New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS SHOWN ON PLATE 14 OF USGS BULL 885.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary
Lead Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.73591, 32.32012
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL

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
Year of last production 1914

Mining district

District name Lordsburg District: Virginia Subdistrict

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner P. Wehner
    Home office Lordsburg, N.M.
    First year 1914
  • Type Owner
    Owner Humboldt Mining Co.
    First year 1890

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LASKY, S. G., 1938, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE LORDSBURG MINING DISTRICT, HIDALGO COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 885, 62 P.

  • Deposit

    THORMAN, C.H., AND DREWES, H., 1978 USGS MISC. GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS MAP, I-1151

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ONE PATENTED CLAIM MINERAL SURVEY NUMBER 935. ON WALDO VEIN, A MAJOR E-TRENDING VEIN IN ANDESITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-78 Richter, D. H. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-JAN-83 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.

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