Mountain Home Mine

Past Producer in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold, Tungsten
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. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013434
MRDS ID D009721
Record type Site
Current site name Mountain Home Mine
Alternate or previous names Mountain Home Group: Claims Patented In 1914, Mountain Home, Mountain Home Nos. 2, 4, 5 and 6, Mountain Chief, Chief, Fighting Tenth, Zincite, Live Oak, Midnight, Northstar
Related records 10150177

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.10283, 32.824 (WGS84)
Elevation 2080
Relative position ABOUT 10.5 MILES N 71 E 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

Santa Rita Mine(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Mimbres(hydrologic unit)

Mimbres(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Mimbres(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(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 017S 012W 17 SE New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS SHOWN ON THE SANTA RITA TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGL E.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary
Tungsten Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Smithsonite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Syrena Formation;Oswaldo Formation
    Rock description Syrena Formation;Oswaldo Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.10283, 32.824

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Replacement Of Limy Beds Where Cut By Ne-Trending Fractures.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1875
Year of last production 1925

Mining district

District name Fierro-Hanover District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Humboldt Mines, Inc.
  • Type Owner
    Owner J. A. Mckenna And C. H. Gearhart
    First year 1917

Comments on the production information

  • ACCURATE PRODUCTION YEARS WERE FROM 1911 TO 1918 AND IN 1925; COMBINED TOTAL PRODUCTION OF ABOUT 4500 MT OF OXIDIZED ZN-PB ORE, MOST OF WHICH WAS PROBABLY PRODUCED BETWEEN 1909 AND 1917. ALSO REPORTED THAT $22,000 ZN, $1,900 PB, AND $1,500 CU WERE PRODUCED.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 609.6M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS INCLUDE 6 ADITS (TO 600 FT), 2 SHAFTS (50 AND 100 FT), AND STOPES. POSSIBLY MORE SHAFTS AND ADITS IF NORTH STAR WORKINGS INCLUDED. WORKINGS REPORTED IN THE 1930'S CONSISTED OF SEVERAL ADITS AND TUNNELS WITH OVER 2000 FT OF DRIFTING AND CROSSCUTTING. WORKINGS INCLUDED SEVERAL SHALLOW SHAFTS, WINZES, RAISES AND SMALL OPEN PITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HERNON, R. M., JONES, W. R., AND MOORE, S. L., 1964 USGS GEOLOGIC MAP, GQ-306

  • Deposit

    JONES, W. R., HERNON, R. M., AND MOORE, S. L., 1967 USGS PP 555, 144 PAGES

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    DALE, V.B., AND MCKINNEY, W.A., 1959, U.S. BUREAU OF MINES REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 5517, P. 17-18.

  • Deposit

    JONES, W.R., AND HERNON, R.M., 1973, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, NATIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION SERVICE PB 214, 371, P. 41.

  • Deposit

    SCHMITT, H.A., 1935, AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGICAL ENGINEERS TRANSACTIONS, V. 115, P. 204.

  • Production

    AGGREGATED USBM PRODUCTION RECORDS; DALE, V.B., AND MCKINNEY, W.A., 1959.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CARBONATE ORES FORM MOST OF DEPOSIT WITH SOME PRIMARY ORE CONTAINING SPHALERITE, GALENA, AND TUNGSTEN MINERALS. REPLACEMENT OF LIMY BEDS AT THE BASE OF THE PENNSYLVANIAN SYRENA FORMATION WHERE CUT BY NE-TRENDING FRACTURES ABOUT 1.5 KM WEST OF FIERRO-HANOVER STOCK. DALE AND MCKINNEY STATE THAT THE GROUP IS COMPOSED OF SEVENTEEN CLAIMS COVERING SECTIONS 16 AND 17. ELEVEN PATENTED CLAIMS MINERAL SURVEY NUMBER 1518 COVERING 208.45 ACRES.
Deposit THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM RECORD NUMBER D011697 BY RON WORL WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1982 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-JUL-1984 Seanor, Clint E. (Worl, Ron) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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