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Shrine Fluorspar Mine

Past Producer in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Silver
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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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10069415
MRDS ID W006935
Record type Site
Current site name Shrine Fluorspar Mine
Alternate or previous names Osmer Mine: Shrine Group Patented In 1950, Claims, Shrine No. 1, Shrine No. 2, Shrine No. 4, Shrine Millsite: Other Claims, Shrine No. 3, Rome No. 2
Related records 10174417

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.45256, 32.65512 (WGS84)
Elevation 1825
Relative position 40 KM SOUTHWEST OF SILVER CITY, 19 KM WEST OF TYRONE BY ROAD.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wind Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Gila-Mangas(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 019S 016W 13,14 NW (13); NE (14) New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE MAIN SHAFT OF THE SHRINE MINE AS SHOWN ON THE WIND MOUNTAIN TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Gold Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • SILVER AND GOLD OCCUR IN TRACE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Hornblende Granite, Biotite Granite, Porphyritic Granite;Cret-Tert
    Rock description Hornblende Granite, Biotite Granite, Porphyritic Granite;Cret-Tert
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Hornblendite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.45256, 32.65512
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Mangas Fault, Malone Fault And Another Fault.

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL
    Strike N 75 TO 80 W
    Dip 46 TO 68 SW
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 762M
    Width 132.59M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 192M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Control. Veins Widest Where Wall Rock Is Granite

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE PORPHYRITIC GRANITE CONTAINS LARGE ORTHOCLASE CRYSTALS, SOME QUARTZ AND CHLORITIZED BIOTITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1936
Discoverer Louis L. Osmer
Year of first production 1936
Year of last production 1950

Mining district

District name Burro Mountains District: Tyrone Area; Willow Creek

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Allied Chemical Corp., General Chemical Division

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTIVE PERIOD WAS 1936 - 1954. IN 1941 AND 1942 CRUDE ORE AVERAGED 81.0 AND 83.5 PERCENT CAF2 RESPECTIVELY.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 132.59M
    Overall length 609.6M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1966 CONSISTED OF A 730 FT. INCLINED SHAFT WITH SEVEN WORKING LEVELS. DRIFTING EXTENDED ABOUT 900 FT. ALONG STRIKE AND THE SURFACE OUTCROP WAS EXPLORED FOR A LENGTH OF 1100 FT.. DRIFTS ON THE 35, 85 AND 135 FT. LEVELS WERE STOPED TO THE SURFACE.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: MOST OF THE ORE WAS TRUCKED 40 KM TO THE SILVER CITY RAILROAD STATION. AFTER 1942, ORE WAS SENT TO GENERAL CHEMICAL'S MILL AT DEMING.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROTHROCK, H. E., JOHNSON, C. H. AND HAHN, A. D., 1946, FLUORSPAR RESOURCES OF NEW MEXICO: N. MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES AND MIN. RES. BULL. 21 P. 71 - 73

  • Deposit

    GILLERMAN, E., 1951, FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF BURRO MOUNTAINS AND VICINITY, NEW MEXICO: USGS BULL. 973F P. 275 - 276

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, F. E., 1966, FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF NEW MEXICO: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES INFO. CIRC. 8307 P. 66

  • Deposit

    GILLERMAN, E., 1964 NMBMMR BULL 83, P. 69

  • Deposit

    MCANULTY, W.N., 1978 NMBMMR MEM 34, P. 17

  • Deposit

    HEDLUND, D.C., 1978 USGS MISCELLANEOUS FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-1031

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    PAIGE, SIDNEY, 1916, SILVER CITY, NEW MEXICO FOLIO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGIC ATLAS OF THE UNITED STATES, NO. 199.

  • Deposit

    1916 GEOLMAP PAIGE, S.

  • Deposit

    1928 GEOLMAP DARTON, N. H.

  • Deposit

    1951 GEOLMAP GILLERMAN, E.

  • Production

    WILLIAMS, F. E., 1966, FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF N. MEXICO; ROTHROCK, H. E., 1946, FLUORSPAR RES. OF N. MEXICO

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSITS OCCUR AS VEINS WITHIN A BRECCIA AND GOUGE ZONE ALONG A NORTHWEST STRIKING FAULT. FOUR PATENTED CLAIMS MINERAL SURVEY NUMBER 2129 AND TWO UNPATENTED CLAIMS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-75 Schruben, Paul G. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-82 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

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