Cincinnati Mine

Past Producer in Luna county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Gold, Zinc
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Production statistics
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013933
MRDS ID D010499
Record type Site
Current site name Cincinnati Mine
Related records 10296168

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.77116, 31.90903 (WGS84)
Elevation 1387
Relative position ABOUT 25 MILES S 02 W OF DEMING.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Luna(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

West Lime Hills(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Columbus(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

El Paso(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

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NM)

Bureau of Land Management NM BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Luna

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 027S 009W 33 SW New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE MAIN SHAFT.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Calamine Ore
Galena Ore
Hydrozincite Ore
Smithsonite Ore
Willemite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic Alteration.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Tres Hermanas Stock
    Rock description Tres Hermanas Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.77116, 31.90903

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL
    Strike CINCINNATI VEIN N 75 E
    Dip 75 SE
    Thickness 1.22M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1900
Year of last production 1925

Mining district

District name Tres Hermanas District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Western Minerals Co. Milton Mining Co., Columbus, N.M.
    First year 1925
  • Type Owner
    Owner Golden Cross And Eagle Co.
    First year 1900

Production statistics

  • Year 1951
    Period 1919 To 1951
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^Ore Grade 20 To 60% Caf2.
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    CaF2 Ore Fluorine-Fluorite Fluorine 40wt-pct

Comments on the production information

  • LINDGREN, 1909, CREDITS THE CINCINNATI MINE WITH 100000 DOLLARS IN PRODUCTION VALUE PRIOR TO 1904.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 152.4M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1961 CONSISTED OF THE MAIN SHAFT WHICH WAS 3 00 TO 500 FT. DEEP, AN 80 FT. SHAFT, MANY SHALLOW PITS, AND SEVERAL SM ALL OPEN CUTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W., 1909 USGS BULL 380, P. 125

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W., GRATON, L.C., AND GORDON, C.H., 1910 USGS PP 68, P. 2 92-293

  • Deposit

    GRISWOLD, G.B., 1961 NMBMMR BULL 72, P. 55-59, PLATE 1

  • Deposit

    BALK, ROBERT, 1962 NMBMMR GEOLOGIC MAP GM-16

  • Deposit

    DORAIBABU, P., AND PROCTOR, P.D., 1972 NMBMMR TARGET EXPLORATION RE PORT E-4, 9 PAGES

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

  • Production

    WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TWO UNPATENTED CLAIMS IN 1950.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1983 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