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Iron Cap Prospect

Occurrence in Socorro county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012502
MRDS ID D008157
Record type Site
Current site name Iron Cap Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.18948, 34.01342 (WGS84)
Elevation 2987
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 17 MILES S 81 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

Magdalena(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Magdalena(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Socorro(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

Cibola National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Socorro

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 003S 003W 30,31 SE (30); NE (31) New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE MAIN WORKINGS OF THE PROSPECT.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Covellite Ore
Malachite Ore
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Propylitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Hells Mesa Tuff
    Rock description Hells Mesa Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    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) -107.18948, 34.01342
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Northerly-Trending Mafic Dike Is Brecciated And Silicified Along The Shear Zone.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Magdalena Mountains Area: Mill Canyon District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner August Riviere
    Home office Magdalena, N.M.
    First year 1926

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED TO CONSIST OF OPEN CUTS, SHAFTS AND SHORT ADITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LASKY, S.G., 1932, NMBMMR BULL 8, P.44-45

  • Deposit

    ALLEN, P., 1979, NMBMMR OFR-119, P.133

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-81 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

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Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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