Pennsylvania Mine

Past Producer in Santa Fe county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold
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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  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 10014734
MRDS ID D011636
Record type Site
Current site name Pennsylvania Mine
Alternate or previous names Patented Claims 1906:J.B. Weaver, Bob Ingersoll, Bertha Mabel, Owl, Sure Winner
Related records 10150997

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.13307, 35.49312 (WGS84)
Elevation 1969
Relative position ABOUT 18.4 MILES S 40 W OF SANTA FE, NM

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Fe(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Madrid(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 015N 008E 31 NE New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS ACCURATE FOR THE SHAFT. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1979

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Silver Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Smithsonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitization And Chloritization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Espinosa Volcanics
    Rock description Espinosa Volcanics
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Espinosa Volcanics
    Rock description Espinosa Volcanics

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.13307, 35.49312

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Faults And Shear Zones
Type of structure Local
Structure description Shear Zone

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike DUE NORTH
    Dip 70 TO 80 W
    Thickness 0.91M
    Length 198.12M
    Width 2.13M
    Depth to bottom 91.44M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zones

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1950
Discoverer Michael O'Neill
Year of first production 1950
Year of last production 1952

Mining district

District name Cerrillos District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Verne Byrne
    Home office Santa Fe, N.M.
    First year 1957

Comments on the production information

  • DURING 1917-1918 THERE WERE REPORTEDLY SEVERAL CARLOADS OF ORE SHIPPED. APPROXIMATELY 900 TONS OF LEAD-ZINC ORE OF GOOD GRADE WAS PRODUCED BETWEEN 1942 AND 1952.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 123.44M
    Overall depth 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 300-FOOT SHAFT AND A 405-FOOT DRIFT ON THE 189-FOOT LEVEL. THERE ARE SEVERAL PITS ON THE SURFACE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DISBROW, A.E., AND W.C. STOLL, 1957, NMBMMR BULL 48, P. 55-57

  • Deposit

    ELSTON, W.E., 1967, NMBMMR BULL 81, P. 30-33

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ON THE SURFACE THE PENNSYLVANIA VEIN IS TRACEABLE FOR ABOUT 650 FEET. THE VEIN STRIKES ABOUT DUE NORTH ON THE AVERAGE AND DIPS 70 TO 80 W. NEAR THE PENNSYLVANIA SHAFT IT BENDS ABRUPTLY AND THE BEND IS REFLECTED ALSO IN THE COURSE IN THE VEIN UNDERGROUND. IN THE SADDLE SOUTH OF THE MINE, A CONSPICUOUS VEIN IS EXPOSED IN PITS DUG ON THE EAST FLANK OF LUCERAS HILL; THIS MAY BE A FAULTED SEGMENT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA OR A SECOND VEIN. IN THE SURFACE WORKINGS THE VEIN IS A BEND OF LIGHT-COLORED, SOFT, ALTERED, AUGITE-BIOTITE MONZONITE, 1.5 TO 7 FEET WIDE, CONTAINING STREAKS OF LIMONITE AND STRINGERS OF QUARTZ. GREEN BOTRYOIDAL SMITHSONITE WAS FOUND IN THE WEATHERED CAPPING OF THE VEIN. UNDERGROUND, ON THE 189-FOOT LEVEL, THE VEIN IS A THIN, SINUOUS ZONE OF SHEARING AND ALTERATION CONTAINS A BAND OF MASSIVE SPHALERITE AND GALENA LYING IN THE MIDDLE OR ON THE FOOTWALL OR HANGING WALL. STREAKS OF MASSIVE OPALINE QQARTZ ARE LOCALLY INTERLAYERED WITH ORE. IN THE SHAFT BETWEEN THE 189 AND 300-FOOT
Deposit LEVELS THE VEIN CONTAINS AN ALMOST CONTINUOUS BAND OF MASSIVE ORE RANGING 6-18 INCHES THICK. THE VEIN IS COVERED BY MINERAL SURVEY 1325 AND FIVE PATENTED CLAIMS (1906) - THE J.B. WEAVER, BOB INGERSOLL, BERTHA MABLE, OWL, AND SURE WINNER.
Deposit Discovery Year: 1900'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1984 Murray, Diane New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

Beyond USGS

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