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Great Combination Mine

Past Producer in Bernalillo county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  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. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013011
MRDS ID D009065
Record type Site
Current site name Great Combination Mine
Alternate or previous names Claims Patented In 1913, Great Combination, Great Combination No. 1
Related records 10296183

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.44836, 35.02451 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012
Relative position ABOUT 10 MILES S 71 E OF ALBUQUERQUE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Bernalillo(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tijeras(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Albuquerque(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Albuquerque(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 Bernalillo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 009N 005E 07 NW New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE ADIT IN THE EXTREME NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 7 AS SHOWN ON THE TIJERAS TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE.; PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = ALBUQUERQUE 1:250000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Malachite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Greenstone
    Rock unit name Tijeras-Hell Canyon Greenstone
    Rock description Tijeras-Hell Canyon Greenstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.44836, 35.02451
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Remobilized Vocanogenic Deposits Are Localized Along A Shear Zone.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of last production 1955

Mining district

District name Tijeras Canyon District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner W. A. Christy
    Home office Albuquerque, N.M.
    First year 1950

Comments on the production information

  • ELSTON REPORTED 3 OZ. OF GOLD AND 4 OZ. OF SILVER WAS PRODUCED IN 1952.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 76.2M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 255 FT. ADIT WITH RAISE TO A SMALL STOPED AREA WHICH WAS CAVED IN 1975.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ELSTON, W.E., 1967 NMBMMR BULL 81, P. 12-16

  • Deposit

    KELLEY, V.C., AND NORTHROP, S.A., 1975 NMBMMR MEM 29, P. 103

  • Deposit

    FULP, M.S., AND WOODWARD, L.A., 1981 NMGS NEW MEXICO GEOLOGY, VOL 3, NO 3, P. 33-42

  • Production

    ELSTON, W.E., 1967 NMBMMR BULL 81, P. 14

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 2 PATENTED CLAIMS MINERAL SURVEY NUMBER 1428 COVERING 39.382 ACRES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1982 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.

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