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New Placers

Past Producer in Santa Fe county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014731
MRDS ID D011632
Record type Site
Current site name New Placers
Alternate or previous names Placers: Golden Placers, San Lazurus Placers, Nero Placers, Cement Beds Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.22558, 35.2645 (WGS84)
Elevation 2079
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 31.2 MILES S 26 W OF SANTA FE, NM, Within A Radius Of 3000 Feet., Within A Radius Of 3000 Feet., Within A Radius Of 3000 Feet., Within A Radius Of 3000 Feet.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Fe(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Golden(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Albuquerque(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Albuquerque(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio Grande-Santa Fe(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Santa Fe

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 012N 007E 16 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS ESTIMATED FOR THE GOLDEN PLACER ON THE NORTHWESTERN EDGE OF THE RANGE. THE SAN LAZURUS PLACER IS LOCATED ON THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE RANGE AND THE "CEMENT BEDS" PLACER IS HALFWAY BETWEEN GOLDEN AND THE UNO DEL GATO COAL FIELDS. THE CADASTRAL GRID IS PROJECTED. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1979

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit
    Rock unit name Santa Fe Group
    Rock description Santa Fe Group
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.22558, 35.2645
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Detrital Fans

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Unconsolidated Eluvial And Alluvial Deposits In Detritus Fans And Arroyos

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1839
Year of first production 1839
Year of last production 1935

Mining district

District name New Placers District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Santa Fe Dredging Co.
    First year 1924

Comments on the production information

  • ELSTON, (1967, P. 38) REPORTS THE PLACER OPERATIONS PROBABLY YIELDED BETWEEN $1 AND $2 MILLION DOLLARS BEFORE 1880. LINDGREN (1910, P. 174) STATES THAT THE MINERS WERE OBTAINING $2000 TO $4000 ANNUALLY IN 1910

Comments on the workings information

  • IN THE MID-19TH CENTURY MINERS WORKED THE PLACERS WITH PRIMITIVE EQUIPMENT, PANNING OR SLUICING THE GOLD. AL LARGE-SCALE MODERN OPERATIONS HAVE FAILED. THERE IS INSUFFICIENT WATER FOR WET METHODS OF EXTRACTION AND THE GROUND IS TOO WET FOR DRY METHODS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W., L.C. GORDON, AND C.H. GRATON, 1910, USGS PP 68, P. 170-175

  • Deposit

    ATKINSON, W.W., JR., 1961, NMBMMR BULL 77, P. 36-37

  • Deposit

    ELSTON, W.E., 1967, NMBMMR BULL 81, P. 42

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PLACER GOLD OF UP TO 920 FINENESS WAS FOUND IN UNCONSOLIDATED ELUVIAL AND ALLUVIAL DEPOSITS IN MANY PLACES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SAN PEDRO MOUNTAINS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-84 Murray, Diane New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

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