Forty-One and Riverside Claims

Past Producer in Sierra county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Manganese, Fluorine-Fluorite
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. 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 10011997
MRDS ID D007221
Record type Site
Current site name Forty-One and Riverside Claims
Related records 10297084

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.2367, 33.0765 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 4 MILES S 10 E OF TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sierra(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Palomas Gap(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Truth or Consequences(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tularosa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Caballo(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande-Caballo(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Mimbres(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(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 Sierra

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 014S 004W 21,22 E2 (21); CENTER (22) New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE FORTY-ONE CLAIMS WHICH ARE LOCATED ABOUT 1000 FT. EAST OF THE RIVERSIDE CLAIMS. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1975)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Psilomelane Ore
Pyrolusite Ore
Wad Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicified Limestone

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name El Paso Group
    Rock description El Paso Group

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.2367, 33.0765

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike MN VEINS NORTH-SOUTH; F VEINS EAST-WEST
    Dip VERTICAL
    Thickness 3.66M
  • General form TABULAR
    Dip VERTICAL

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control.

Comments on the geologic information

  • RIVERSIDE CLAIMS ARE LOCATED IN LIMESTONE AND THE FORTY-ONE CLAIMS ARE IN PRECAMBRIAN GRANITE. FOR REGIONAL GEOLOGY SEE SIERRA CABALLOS DISTRICT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1952
Year of last production 1954

Mining district

District name Sierra Caballos District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Caballo Manganese Corp.
    First year 1956
  • Type Owner
    Owner Blanchard Hanson
    Home office Truth Or Consequences, N.M.
    First year 1960

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION FROM 1952 TO 1954 IS REPORTED TO AMOUNT TO 315 LONG TONS OF SORTED ORE AVERAGING 22% MN.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN THE 1960'S CONSISTED OF A 130 FT. CROSSCUT ADIT AND THREE OPENCUTS. THE OPENCUTS RANGE FROM 40 FT. TO 60 FT. LONG AND REACH A MAXIMUM DEPTH OF 20 FT. WORKINGS ON THE FORTY-ONE CLAIMS ARE OPENCUTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROTHROCK, H.E., JOHNSON, C.H., AND HAHN, A.D., 1946 NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 158

  • Deposit

    KELLEY, V.C., AND SILVER, C., 1952 U.N.M. PUB. 4, P. 199, FIG. 2

  • Deposit

    FARNHAM, L.L., 1961 USBM IC-8030, P. 121-122

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966 USBM IC-8307, P. 119

  • Production

    FARNHAM, L.L., 1961 P. 121

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSITS OCCUR ON THE FORTY-ONE CLAIMS AS NORTH-STRIKING FLUORSPAR VEINS CROSSED BY EAST-STRIKING MANGANESE VEINS IN COUNTRY ROCK OF GRANITIC COMPOSITION. DEPOSITS ON THE RIVERSIDE CLAIMS OCCUR AS SEAMS, VEINLETS AND SMALL PODS IN TWO OR MORE NORTH-STRIKING SILICEOUS FRACTURE ZONES IN LIMESTONE COUNTRY ROCK. THE RIVERSIDE ZONES RANGE FROM 5 FT. TO 12 FT. WIDE AND ARE COVERED BY 5 UNPATENTED CLAIMS.
Deposit THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM RECORD D010095 BY RONALD G. WORL WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1981 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-FEB-1983 Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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