Section 13 Mine

Producer in McKinley county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Uranium
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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012512
MRDS ID D008170
Record type Site
Current site name Section 13 Mine
Related records 10151073

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.84895, 35.43811 (WGS84)
Elevation 2149
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 20 MILES DUE NORTH OF GRANTS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

McKinley(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ambrosia Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Grants(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Albuquerque(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio San Jose(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 McKinley

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 014N 010W 13 S2 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • REPORTED TO BE LOCATED NEAR THE CENTER OF THE SOUTH HALF OF SECTION 13.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Morrison
    Rock description Morrison
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.84895, 35.43811

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Channel Sandstone And Carbonaceous Material (Humate).

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE OCCURS IN THE WESTWATER CANYON MEMBER OF THE MORRISON FM..

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Year of last production 1979

Mining district

District name Grants Uranium District: Ambrosia Lake Subdistrict

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Homestake Mining Co.
    Home office P.O. Box 98, Grants, N.M. 87020
    First year 1981

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 188.37M

Comments on the workings information

  • OPERATION WAS REPORTED IN 1980 TO USE A MODIFIED ROOM AND PILLAR MINING METHOD WITH ACCESS BY A 618 FT. VERTICAL SHAFT.

Comments on development

  • PREVIOUSLY OPERATED BY UNITED NUCLEAR-HOMESTAKE PARTNERS (1980).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SANTOS, E.S., AND THADEN, R.E., 1966 USGS MAP GQ-515

  • Deposit

    HILPERT, L.S., 1969 USGS PP 603, P. 39

  • Deposit

    CHAPMAN, WOOD, AND GRISWOLD, INC., 1979 NMBMMR GEOLOGIC MAP 31

  • Deposit

    SIEMERS, W.T., AND AUSTIN, G.S., 1979 NMBMMR RESOURCE MAP 9

  • Deposit

    URANIUM RESOURCES AND TECHNOLOGY, 1981 N.M. ENERGY AND MINERALS DEPT., P. 61

  • Deposit

    NEW MEXICO STATE INSPECTOR OF MINES, 1981 NEW REGISTRATIONS

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-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.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.