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Athena Prospects

Past Producer in Hidalgo county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Fluorine-Fluorite, Copper, Silver
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013572
MRDS ID D009940
Record type Site
Current site name Athena Prospects
Related records 10222862

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.48894, 31.57043 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position 22.5 MI S25E OF ANIMAS, NM.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hidalgo(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

U Bar Ridge(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Animas(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Douglas(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Playas Lake(hydrologic unit)

Mimbres(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Mimbres(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Hidalgo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 031S 018W 34 NE New Mexico

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Copper Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cerargyrite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Fluorite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Malachite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

Analytical data

Result A COMPOSITE SAMPLE FROM SHAFTS ON ATHENA NO. 1 PROSPECT AVERAGED 33.40% CAF2, 2.71% CAC03, 58.84% 5102

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Walnut Wells Stock
    Rock description Walnut Wells Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Horquilla;U-Bar
    Rock description Horquilla;U-Bar

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.48894, 31.57043
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne Trending Winkler Anticline.
Type of structure Local
Structure description Ne And Nw Trending Faults

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR MANTOS
    Strike U-BAR FAULT, NE; SEVERAL OTHERS, NW
    Dip VERTICAL; VERTICAL
    Thickness 10.67M
    Depth to top 0M
  • General form IRREGULAR MANTOS
    Strike U-BAR FAULT, NE; SEVERAL OTHERS, NW
    Dip VERTICAL; VERTICAL

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Brecciated Jasperoid Replacement Mantos Along Faults And Bedding Planes In Limestone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1969
Discoverer Fred C. Leach
Year of first production 1972
Year of last production 1975

Mining district

District name Animas Mountains, Winkler Anticline Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Rangaire Corp.
    Home office Cleburne, Tx.
    First year 1975
  • Type Owner
    Owner Fred C. Leach
    First year 1975

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF FOUR SHALLOW (35 OR 50 FT) TEST SHAFTS.

Comments on development

  • FROM 1970-1971 WN. MCANULTY AND ASSOCIATES MAPPED THE AREA. IN ADDITION, SEVERAL TRENCHES AND FOUR SHALLOW TEST SHAFTS WERE DUG, 50-100 FT PERCUSSION HOLES WERE DRILLED, AND EXTENSIVE SAMPLING AND GEOCHEMICAL TESTING WAS PERFORMED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MCANULTY, WN, 1978, NMBMMR MEM 34, P. 35-37.

  • Deposit

    ELLIS, RD, 1971, MS THESIS, UTEP.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MINERALIZED ZONES IN BRECCIATED ROCK ALONG DISCORDANT FAULTS AND BEDDING-PLANE FAULTS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING MINERALS: FLUORITE, CALCITE, QUARTZ (BOTH COARSE AND CRYPTOCRYSTALLING VARIETIES), AZURITE, MALACHITE, CHALCOPYRITE, PYRITE, AND REPORTEDLY CERARGYRITE. FLUORITE OCCURS AS AS EUHEDRAL TO SUBHEDRAL AND MASSIVE COARSE-CRYSTALLINE AGGREGATES, AND TO A MINOR EXTENT, AS FINE-GRAINED REPLACEMENT MATERIAL. COLORS INCLUDE CLEAR, GREEN, WHITE, AND PURPLE. THE ATHENA PROSPECT IS IN TWO AREAS: ATHENA NO. 1 PROSPECT WHERE SOME ORE HAS BEEN MINED, AND ATHENA NO. 2 PROSPECT ABOUT 1200 FT TO THE SOUTH. MOST OF THE FLUORITE IS COARSE-GRAINED, FILLING VOIDS IN SILICA REPLACED LIMESTONE (JASPEROID); LESSER AMOUNTS OCCUR IN VEINS ALONG FAULTS, PRINCIPALLY VIOD-FILLING, BUT ALSO AS MINOR WALLROCK REPLACEMENT. FLUORSPAR-BEARING JASPERIOD BODIES RANGE FROM 0 TO 38 FT THICK AND AVERAGE 20 FT. APPROXIMATELY 150,000 TONS OF JASPERIOD ROCK CONTAINING 25 TO 35% CAF2 WERE FOUND BY DRILLING OUTCROP AREAS ON
Deposit THE ATHENA PROSPECTS. CHANGES ARE GOOD FOR DISCOVERY OF A MU CH LARGER TONNAGE OF SIMILAR ROCK BY DRILLING DOWNDIP FROM THE OUTCROPS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1983 Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.) U.S. Geological Survey

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