1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Hitt Canyon Prospect

Occurrence in El Paso county in Texas, United States with commodities Copper, Iron
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10085696
MRDS ID W701326
Record type Site
Current site name Hitt Canyon Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.48139, 31.99153 (WGS84)
Elevation 1372
Relative position 14 MI (22 KM) N OF EL PASO

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

El Paso(county)

Texas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

North Franklin Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

El Paso(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

El Paso(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Tularosa Valley(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande Closed Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande Closed Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Texas El Paso

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Covellite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Marcasite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 59
USGS model code 18b
Deposit model name Skarn Cu
Mark3 model number 8

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble
    Rock unit name Castner Marble
    Rock description Castner Marble
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.48139, 31.99153
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • AN INTRUSIVE BRECCIA WAS REPORTED, WHICH IS UNLIKE THE PRECAMBRIAN INTRUSIONS IN THIS AREA. IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT THE BRECCIA (AND THE RELATED MINERALIZATION) IS POST-SILURIAN IN AGE BECAUSE THE FUSSELMAN DOLOMITE OF THE AREA IS ALTERED. THE BRECCIA WAS MAPPED AS PRECAMBRIAN AND A FAULT WAS INDICATED BETWEEN THE FUSSELMAN DOLOMITE AND THE PRECAMBRIAN ROCKS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Franklin Mountains

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PRICE, J. G., HENRY, C. D., AND STANDEN, A. R., 1983, ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MINERAL DEPOSITS IN TRANS-PECOS TEXAS: BUREAU OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY (TEXAS), MINERAL RESOURCE CIRCULAR NO. 73, 108 P

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1990 Paidakovich, Matthew E. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1992 Long, Keith R. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site