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Watson Mountain Mine

Past Producer in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Fluorine-Fluorite
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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. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013466
MRDS ID D009772
Record type Site
Current site name Watson Mountain Mine
Alternate or previous names Claims, Watson Mountain Nos. 1 and 2
Related records 10247496

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.49951, 33.07038 (WGS84)
Elevation 1509
Relative position ABOUT 24 MILES N 36 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

Canyon Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mogollon Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Gila(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 014S 016W 21 E2 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • THE MINE IS REACHED BY TRAVELING NE FROM GILA, NM FOR 12.5 MI. THE PROPERTY LIES ON THE NORTH SLOPE OF WATSON MOUNTAIN. ACCURATE LOCATION IS SHOWN ON USGS MISC. GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-886. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1978)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
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) -108.49951, 33.07038
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR, PINCH AND SWELL
    Strike NORTH
    Dip 65 TO 75 WEST
    Thickness 1.52M
    Length 182.88M
    Width 30.48M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1938
Discoverer Fred And Dink Chappel
Year of first production 1938
Year of last production 1940

Mining district

District name Gila Fluorspar District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Brown And Johnson Corp.
    First year 1942
  • Type Owner
    Owner Fred And Dink Chappel
    Home office Cliff, N.M.
    First year 1940

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION IN 1938 AMOUNTED TO 150 TONS CREDITED TO FRED AND DINK CHAPPEL AND THE SLICK MINING AND REFINING CO. IN 1939 JOHN LOTRIDGE MINED ABOUT 60 TONS, AND IN 1940 CURRY AND FORBES PRODUCED 150 TONS OF FLUORSPAR.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1966 CONSISTED OF A CAVED ADIT ABOUT 155 FT IN LENGTH AND NUMEROUS OPEN PITS AND TRENCHES. THE VEIN, A CONTINUANCE OF THE VEIN ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE GILA RIVER ON THE LAST CHANCE PROPERTY, IS EXPOSED IN CUTS, TRENCHES, AND AN ADIT FOR A DISTANCE OF 600 FT. A 155 FT ADIT WAS DRIVEN SOUTHWARD FROM A POINT 10 FT ABOVE THE RIVER BED, FOLLOWING THE VEIN ON THE HANGING WALL SIDE. ABOUT 350 FT SLIGHTLY EAST OF SOUTH AND IN EXCESS OF 100 FT VERTICALLY ABOVE THIS ADIT, NUMEROUS OPEN PITS AND TRENCHES EXPLORE THE VEIN FOR AN ADDITIONAL 300 FT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROTHROCK, H.E., JOHNSON, C.H., AND HAHN, A.D., 1946 NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 87-88

  • Deposit

    GILLERMAN, E., 1964 NMBMMR BULL 83, P. 170-172

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966 USBM IC-8307, P. 48

  • Deposit

    RATTE, J.C., AND GASKILL, D.L., 1975 USGS MISC. GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS MAP, I-886

  • Deposit

    RUSSELL, P.L., 1947 USBM RI-4020, 5 PAGES

  • Deposit

    RATTE, J.C., AND OTHERS, 1979 USGS BULL 1451, P. 157-160

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

  • Production

    WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966, P. 48.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT CONSISTS OF A VEIN IN A NORTH-SOUTH TRENDING FAULT THAT DIPS 65 TO 75W AND IS IRREGULAR IN THICKNESS AND MINERALIZATION AND COMMONLY CONTAINS HORSES OF ALTERED ANDESITE. THE VEIN RANGES FROM A FEW INCHES TO 5 FT THICK, IS ABOUT 600 FT LONG, AND AT LEAST 100 FT IN DEPTH. THE ORE IS GENERALLY DENSE, WHITE, SUGARY-TEXTURED WITH OCCASIONAL RED STREAKS. GREEN AND BLUE COARSELY CRYSTALLINE CUBIC FLUORITE IS FOUND LOCALLY. TWO UNPATENTED CLAIMS IN THE 1940'S.
Deposit THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM RECORD D009961 BY RONALD G. WORL WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1982 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-JAN-1983 Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.) U.S. Geological Survey

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