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Cliff Prospect

Past Producer in Socorro county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Manganese
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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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10089315
MRDS ID W016630
Record type Site
Current site name Cliff Prospect
Alternate or previous names Claims, Cliff Nos. 1 To 3

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.9692, 33.95065 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 8 MILES S 35 W OF SOCORRO.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Socorro(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Luis Lopez(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Oscura Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tularosa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio Grande-Albuquerque(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 Socorro

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 004S 001W 20 NW New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • GEODETIC AND UTM LOCATION ARE FOR MINE SHOWN IN THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SEC. 20 ON THE LA BORCITA QUADRANGLE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ANALYTICAL DATA FROM NMBMMR GENERAL DATA FILE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Gangue

Analytical data

Result SAMPLE OF SORTED ORE CONTAINED 33.1 % MN.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.9692, 33.95065
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control

Comments on the geologic information

  • FOR REGIONAL GEOLOGY SEE LUIS LOPEZ DISTRICT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1914

Mining district

District name Luis Lopez District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner D. F. Whitman Of Belen, N. M. (1940'S)

Comments on the production information

  • PROBABLY AS MUCH AS ONE CARLOAD OF SORTED ORE WAS SHIPPED DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.003HA
    Overall length 9.14M
    Overall width 3.05M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSISTED OF AN OPENCUT 30 FT. LONG WITH A 10 FT. FACE AND A SHALLOW TRENCH.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

  • Production

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSITS OCCUR IN A NORTH-STRIKING FRACTURE ZONE AS FRACTURE FILLINGS. 3 UNPATENTED CLAIMS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-76 Weeks, Robert New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-JUL-81 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

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