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San Pedro Garnet

Prospect in Santa Fe county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Garnet
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Ownership information
  13. Reserves and resources
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10064474
MRDS ID TC38855
Record type Site
Current site name San Pedro Garnet

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.20335, 35.24173 (WGS84)
Relative position ABOUT 35 MILES SW OF SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Fe(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

San Pedro(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)

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 Santa Fe

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Garnet Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • USE: ABRASIVES; ESTIMATED SELLING COST $30/ST AND OPERATING COST OF $12/ST FOBO.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Skarn (Tactite)
    Rock unit name Madera Limestone
    Rock description Madera Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.20335, 35.24173
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No

Mining district

District name New Placers District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Royal Star Resources Ltd. )
    First year 1992

Comments on the production information

  • PLAN TO PRODUCE 125,000 SHORT TONS PER YEAR WITH INITIAL OUTPUT IN 1993 OF 30,000 SHORT TONS PER YEAR.

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1993
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Garnet Abr_G 85 wt-pct Abrasives Major 1993

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • POTENTIAL GEOLOGICAL RESERVES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ANON., 1993, NEW MEXIXO GARNET DEVELOPMENT, INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, NO. 309, P. 21

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    ANON. (1993)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1993 Page, Norman J. U.S. Geological Survey

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

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