1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Gold Gulch Placers

Past Producer in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
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. 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. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013301
MRDS ID D009523
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Gulch Placers
Alternate or previous names Sunset Gold Fields
Related records 10174691

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.51312, 32.55845 (WGS84)
Elevation 1722
Relative position ABOUT 20 MILES S 42 W OF SILVER CITY.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Eagle Eye Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Animas Valley(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Gila 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 Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 020S 016W 17,20,21 S2 (17); E2 (20); W2 (21) New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE APPROXIMATE CENTER OF THE PLACER DEPOSITS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE MINERAL IS ELECTRUM AN ALLOY OF GOLD AND SILVER.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Silver Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.51312, 32.55845
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 3.05M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Heavy Minerals Localized In Terrace Gravels Along Gold Gulch.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1884
Year of first production 1887
Year of last production 1938

Mining district

District name Malone District: Southern Burro Mountains; Knight Peak Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Sunset Gold Fields Co.
    Home office Boston, Mass.
    First year 1938

Comments on the production information

  • AMOUNT OF GOLD PRODUCED PRIOR TO 1900 IS UNKNOWN.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF SEVERAL OPEN CUTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GILLERMAN, E., 1964 NMBMMR BULL 83, P. 80

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1972 USGS BULL 1348, P. 7-8

  • Deposit

    HEDLUND, D.C., 1980 USGS MISC. FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-1265

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    JONES, F. A., 1904, NEW MEXICO MINES AND MINERALS: SANTE FE, NEW MEXICO PRINTING COMPANY, P. 34-35.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-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.

External references

Maps centered on this site