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Virginia Mine

Past Producer in Otero county in New Mexico, United States with commodities 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. 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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014008
MRDS ID D010606
Record type Site
Current site name Virginia Mine
Related records 10247879

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.84388, 33.15651 (WGS84)
Elevation 1817
Relative position ABOUT 19 MILES N21E OF ALAMOGORDO.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Otero(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mescalero(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ruidoso(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Roswell(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Tularosa Valley(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande Closed Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande Closed Basins(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 Otero

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 013S 011E 26 N2 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS SHOWN ON THE MESCALERO TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE .

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Malachite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Yeso Formation
    Rock description Yeso Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.84388, 33.15651
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralization Localized In Permeable Channel Zones And By Carbonac Eous Debris (Fossil Wood And Plants).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1905
Year of last production 1917

Mining district

District name Tularosa District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Tularosa Copper Co.
    First year 1917

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1956 CONSISTED OF SEVERAL SHALLOW SHAFTS UP TO 100 FT. DEEP AND AN OPEN PIT 120 FT. LONG BY 60 FT. WIDE AND 35 FT. DEEP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W., GRATON, L.C., AND GORDON, C.H., 1910 USGS PP 68, P. 1 87-190

  • Deposit

    SOULE, J.H., 1956 USBM IC-7740, P.68-69

  • Deposit

    OTTE, C., JR., 1959 NMBMMR BULL 50, PLATE 3

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1983 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

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

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