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Spring Gold Stain Mine

Occurrence in Lincoln county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Gold, Arsenic
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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. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094716
MRDS ID DAV0058
Record type Site
Current site name Spring Gold Stain Mine
Related records 10199110

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.67499, 33.84704 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

White Oaks North(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carrizozo(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Roswell(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

Lincoln 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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
5S 12E 27 CENTER New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • BLM ROSWELL RESOURCE AREAABOUT .25 MI NW OF APEX MINE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Arsenic Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching And Kaolinization

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 84
USGS model code 22b
Deposit model name Alkaline Au-Te (Au-Ag-Te veins)
Mark3 model number 80

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.67499, 33.84704
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Rio Grande Rift
Type of structure Local
Structure description Lincoln County Porphyry Belt

Ore body information

  • General form LODE

Comments on the geologic information

  • GRISWOLD (1959) NOTED THAT THE DUMP WAS FAIRLY MINERALIZED BY PYRITE AND ARSENOPYRITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Jicarilla

Land status

Ownership category
Area name Blm Roswell Resource Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner W. A. Hubbard
    First year 1959

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ASSAY OF A GRAB SAMPLE FROM THE DUMP YIELDED ONLY A TRACE OF GOLD.

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL SHAFTS AND AN ADIT WERE DUG. IN 1959, THE MINE DUMPS WERE THE LARGEST IN THE DISTRICT, INDICATING CONSIDERABLE UNDERGROUND DEVELOPMENT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SEGERSTROM, KENNETH, AND RYBERG, G.E., 1974, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1308. GRISWOLD, G.B., 1959, NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 67, 117 P

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ABOUT .25 MI NW OF APEX MINE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1992 Sutphin, David M. U.S. Geological Survey

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