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Silver Cliff Prospect

Occurrence in Dona Ana county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013576
MRDS ID D009952
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Cliff Prospect
Related records 10126103

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.58724, 32.33735 (WGS84)
Elevation 1743
Relative position 0.6 MI NORTH OF THE HAYNER RESORT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Dona Ana(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Organ Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Las Cruces(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Las Cruces(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

El Paso-Las Cruces(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande-Caballo(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Mimbres(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Dona Ana

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 023S 003E 01 E2 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • PROSPECT LIES BETWEEN THE DRIPPING SPRINGS AND THE MOUTH OF FILLMORE CANYON, NEAR THE SOUTHERN END OF THE ORGAN MOUNTAINS. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Barium-Barite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Fluorite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.58724, 32.33735
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Mcanulty (1978) Indicates That The Silver Cliff Prospect Lies Within The Resurgent Organ Mtn. Caldera

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Organ Mountains

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DUNHAM, DC, 1935, NMBMMR BULL 11.

  • Deposit

    WILLIAM, FE, 1966, USBM INF CIRC 8307, P. 24-25.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COLORLESS FLUORITE AND BARITE WERE INTRODUCED INTO A BRECCIATED FAULT ZONE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1982 Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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