Ada Etta Claim

Past Producer in Hidalgo county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10097783
MRDS ID D003352
Record type Site
Current site name Ada Etta Claim
Alternate or previous names Mikesell Properties: Summit Group, Claims, Summit, Ada Etta, Big Dike, Daisy, Monday, Florence May, Sterling, Lone Star, Copper Nugget No. 1, Copper Nugget No. 2

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.77785, 32.3229 (WGS84)
Elevation 1372
Relative position ABOUT 4.5 MILES S 66 W OF LORDSBURG.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hidalgo(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gary(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lordsburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Animas Valley(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(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 Hidalgo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 023S 019W 10,11 NE (10); NW (11) New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE CENTER OF THE CLAIM.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chlorargyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification And Propylitization.

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.77785, 32.3229

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of last production 1928

Mining district

District name Lordsburg District: Virginia Subdistrict

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Kerr, T. A.
    First year 1928
  • Type Owner
    Owner O. Evans Mikesell
    Home office Pittsburg, Pa.
    First year 1950

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1930 CONSISTED OF A 700 FT. ADIT ON THE DAISY CLAIM AND NUMEROUS SHALLOW SHAFTS AND OPEN CUTS ON THE REMAINING CLAIMS IN THE SUMMIT GROUP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LASKY, S. G., 1938, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE LORDSBURG MINING DISTRICT, HIDALGO COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 885, 62 P.

  • Deposit

    THORMAN, C.H., AND DREWES, H., 1978 USGS MISC. GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS MAP, I-1151

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TEN CLAIMS MINERAL SURVEY NUMBER 2010 COVERING 182.663 ACRES. NE VEINS LINKING 2 STRANDS OF THE E-TRENDING LEE PEAK VEIN ALONG GRANODIORITE-ANDESITE CONTACT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-78 Richter, D. H. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-JAN-83 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.