American No. 11 Claim

Past Producer in Luna county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Manganese
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Production statistics
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10062661
MRDS ID TC36199
Record type Site
Current site name American No. 11 Claim
Related records 10248204

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.59226, 32.21624 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 2000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Luna(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Florida Gap(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Deming(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Las Cruces(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Mimbres(hydrologic unit)

Mimbres(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Mimbres(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 Luna

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 24S 07W 18 SE4 New Mexico

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Psilomelane Ore
Pyrolusite Ore
Wad Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Alluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.59226, 32.21624

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form SINUOUS
    Strike N-NE
    Dip 65-80W
    Thickness 1.83M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1925

Production statistics

  • Year 1953
    Material MN ORE
    Description Ap_Grade: ^21% Mn
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Ore Manganese Manganese 21wt-pct

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION THROUGH 1940'S NOT KNOWN.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FARNHAM, L.L., 1961, MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF NEW MEXICO: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 8030, 176 P

  • Production

    FARNHAM (1961).

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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