Hillside Claims

Past Producer in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Tungsten, Gold, Silver
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. 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. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010036
MRDS ID D003389
Record type Site
Current site name Hillside Claims
Alternate or previous names Myers

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.4584, 32.36234 (WGS84)
Elevation 1676
Relative position ABOUT 31 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

Ninetysix Ranch(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)

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

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 022S 016W 26 SE New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE PROSPECT IN SECTION 26 AS SHOWN ON THE NINETYSIX RANCH TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Gold Secondary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Scheelite Ore
Wolframite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result DALE AND MCKINNEY, P.14, REPORTED ASSAYS FROM SEVEN SAMPLES TAKEN IN THE 1940'S WHICH RANGED FROM 0.01 TO 2.37 WO3

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) Piedmont alluvial deposits

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form SCATTERED PODS

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralization Occurs In Narrow Quartz Veins Localized Along Pressure-Fracture Systems In The Granite.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1945
Year of last production 1945

Mining district

District name Bound Ranch District: Langford Mountains Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner George Myers
    First year 1940
  • Type Owner
    Owner J. H. Winslow, M. R. Hemley, And Y. E. Nichols
    First year 1957

Comments on the production information

  • DALE AND MCKINNEY REPORTED THE TOTAL PRODUCTION AMOUNTED TO 650 LBS. OF HAND-SORTED TUNGSTEN ORE SHIPPED IN THE EARLY 1940'S.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 12.19M

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 SHAFTS DEEPEST 40 FT,A DRIFT OFF THIS IS 27 FT LONG

Comments on development

  • PRIOR TO 1941 REPORTEDLY WORKED FOR GOLD AND SILVER

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit RATIO OF SCHEELITE TO WOLFRAMITE IS EST. TO BE 5:1

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-82 Lawrence, V. A. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-JUL-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.