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Love Bug Group

Past Producer in Socorro county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Copper, Barium-Barite, Vanadium
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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 10012504
MRDS ID D008160
Record type Site
Current site name Love Bug Group
Alternate or previous names Claims, Love Bug Nos. 1 To 8

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.2456, 34.13675 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 21 MILES N 75 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

Granite Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Magdalena(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Socorro(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio Salado(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Socorro

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 002S 004W 15 W2 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE APPROXIMATE CENTER OF THE CLAIM GROUP.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Secondary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Vanadinite Ore
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.2456, 34.13675
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of last production 1947

Mining district

District name Magdalena Mountains Area: North Magdalena District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Emmitt Nutter
    Home office Magdalena, N.M.
    First year 1947
  • Type Owner
    Owner Lee E. Logan
    Home office Magdalena, N.M.
    First year 1940

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 24.38M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN THE 1940'S CONSISTED OF 2 INACCESSIBLE SHAFTS, SEVERAL PITS AND SHALLOW TRENCHES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LASKY, S.G., 1932 NMBMMR BULL 8, P. 35-37

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 8 UNPATENTED CLAIMS COVERING ABOUT 160 ACRES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1981 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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