Phillips Lease

Past Producer in Socorro county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Manganese
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. Geologic structures
  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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012395
MRDS ID D008003
Record type Site
Current site name Phillips Lease
Related records 10127079

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.05392, 33.99731 (WGS84)
Elevation 1905
Relative position ABOUT 10 MILES S 66 W OF SOCORRO

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Socorro(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Molino Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

San Mateo Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tularosa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio Grande-Albuquerque(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Socorro

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 004S 002W 04 N2 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE MINE IN THE NORTH CENTER OF SECTION 4 AS SHOWN ON THE MOLINO PEAK TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Psilomelane Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.05392, 33.99731

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Mineralized Shear Zone Strikes N 20 W.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

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 first production 1957

Mining district

District name Magdalena Mountains Area

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Cecil H. Phillips .
    Home office Pasadena, Ca
    First year 1958
  • Type Owner
    Owner State Of New Mexico
    Home office New Mexico
    First year 1981

Comments on the production information

  • ABOUT 3000 TONS OF ORE PRODUCED 210 LONG TONS OF CONCENTRATES CONTAINING 40% MN.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall depth 5.49M
    Overall length 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1961 CONSISTED OF AN OPENCUT 300 FT. LONG, 20 FT. TO 50 FT. WIDE AND UP TO 18 FT. DEEP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FARNHAM, L.L., 1961 USBM IC-8030, P. 163-164

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    OSBURN, G.R., 1978 NMBMMR OFR-113, 159 PAGES, 1 PLATE

  • Production

    FARNHAM, L.L., 1961, P. 164

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1981 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