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Whitetop Hill Prospect

Prospect in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, REE
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014665
MRDS ID D011543
Record type Site
Current site name Whitetop Hill Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.47562, 32.44179 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

C Bar Ranch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lordsburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Animas Valley(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
021S 016W 27 W2 New Mexico

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Beryllium Critical Tertiary
Niobium (Columbium) Critical Tertiary
Tantalum Critical Tertiary
REE Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Beryl Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.47562, 32.44179
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Gold Hill District

Comments on the workings information

  • SMALL PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GILLERMAN, ELLIOT, 1964, NMBMMR BULL. 83, 213P.

  • Deposit

    HEDLUND, D. C., 1978, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISCELLANEOUS FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-1039.

  • Deposit

    MEEVES, H. C., HARRER, C. M., SALSBURY, M. H., KONSELMAN, A. S., AND SHANNON, S. S., JR., 1966, U.S. BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 8298, 34P.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THREE PIPE-LIKE ZONED PEGMATITES IN GRANITE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1984 Seanor, Clint E. (Worl, Ron) U.S. Geological Survey

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