Bachelder-Everheart Prospect

Occurrence in Socorro county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Lead, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094463
MRDS ID D007986
Record type Site
Current site name Bachelder-Everheart Prospect
Related records 10175073

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.81309, 34.29369 (WGS84)
Elevation 1539
Relative position ABOUT 17 MILES N 17 E 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

La Joya(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Socorro(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Socorro(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

FWS(Federal land areas administered by FWS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Socorro

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 001N 001E 24 SW New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED ON THE UNSURVEYED SEVILLETA LAND GRANT. TOWNSHIP, RANGE AND SECTION PROJECTED.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Barium-Barite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Fluorite Ore
Galena Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Magdalena Group
    Rock description Magdalena Group

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.81309, 34.29369

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Los Canoncitos Area: Joyita Hills District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner J. H. Bachelder And T. B. Everheart
    First year 1915
  • Type Owner
    Owner Sevilleta Land Grant And The State Of New Mexico
    First year 1981

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST A SEVERAL PROSPECT PITS AND SHALLOW SHAFTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LASKY, S.G., 1932 NMBMMR BULL 8, P. 59-60

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, F.E., USBM IC-8307, P. 121

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1981 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

Beyond USGS

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