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Universal Group

Past Producer in Sierra county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Manganese, Fluorine-Fluorite
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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. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012003
MRDS ID D007228
Record type Site
Current site name Universal Group
Related records 10248182

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.24698, 33.07289 (WGS84)
Elevation 1402
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 4.25 MILES S 3 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); W2 (22) New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • REPORTEDLY LOCATED EAST AND SOUTH OF THE RIVERSIDE CLAIMS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Pyrolusite Ore
Wad Ore
Calcite 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
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) Upper Santa Fe Group
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike NW TO SW
    Dip STEEPLY SW TO SE
    Thickness 0.91M
    Length 45.72M
    Width 12.19M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control.

Comments on the geologic information

  • 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 1953

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

  • IN 1953 11 LONG TONS OF SORTED ORE AVERAGING 17.4 % MN WAS PRODUCED.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 91.44M
    Overall depth 12.19M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1961 CONSISTED OF ONE 40 FT. VERTICAL SHAFT AND SIX OPENCUTS RANGING FROM 30 FT. TO 150 FT. LONG AND UP TO 10 FT. DEEP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FARNHAM, L.L., 1961 USBM IC-8030, P. 122-123

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

  • Production

    FARNHAM, L.L., 1961 P. 123

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSITS OCCUR AS STRINGERS, VEINLETS AND SMALL PODS ALONG NARROW FISSURES WHICH STRIKE NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST. KNOWN DIMENSIONS OF THE DEPOSITS RANGE FROM 30 FT. TO 150 FT. LONG, 1 FT. TO 3 FT. THICK AND UP TO 40 FT. DEEP. 6 UNPATENTED CLAIMS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1981 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

Beyond USGS

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