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Meerschaum Canyon Deposit

Past Producer in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Clay
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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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10062593
MRDS ID TC36113
Record type Site
Current site name Meerschaum Canyon Deposit
Related records 10271749, 10174945

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.18951, 33.05039 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Copperas Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mogollon Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Gila(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)

Gila Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness 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
New Mexico 14S 13W 28 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR MEERSCHAUM SPRING AND MEERSCHAUM TANK.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Clay Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Rock unit name Gila Conglomerate
    Rock description Gila Conglomerate

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.18951, 33.05039
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1875

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Meerschaum Co.
    First year 1905

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 SHAFTS AND 300 FT ADIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RATTE, J.C., GASKILL, D.L., EATON, D.P., PETERSON, D.L., STOTELMEYER, R.B., AND MEEVES, H.C., 1979, MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE GILA PRIMITIVE AREA AND GILA WILDERNESS, NEW MEXICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1451, 229 P

  • Production

    RATTE AND OTHERS (1979).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1992 Page, Norman J. (Sutphin, D.) U.S. Geological Survey

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