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Black Beauty Group 1950's

Past Producer in Sierra county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Manganese, Fluorine-Fluorite
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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. 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. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10097804
MRDS ID D007084
Record type Site
Current site name Black Beauty Group 1950's
Alternate or previous names Known As the West End Group Or Dawson Property In the 1940's.
Related records 10297054

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.26392, 32.8904 (WGS84)
Elevation 1509
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 17 MILES S 2 W OF TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sierra(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Caballo(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hatch(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Las Cruces(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

El Paso-Las Cruces(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande-Caballo(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Mimbres(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 Sierra

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 016S 004W 28 NW New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED ABOUT 2.5 MILES EAST-SOUTHEAST OF CABALLO DAM NEAR THE TOP OF THE EASTERN SLOPE OF THE FIRST PROMINENT RIDGE EAST OF THE RIO GRANDE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Pyrolusite Ore
Wad Ore
Calcite Gangue
Jasper Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicified Limestone

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name El Paso Group
    Rock description El Paso Group
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.26392, 32.8904
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PODS
    Length 21.34M
    Width 3.05M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control

Comments on the geologic information

  • FOR REGIONAL GEOLOGY SEE SIERRA CABALLOS DISTRICT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1965

Mining district

District name Sierra Caballos District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner K. W. Langford And Doyle Saul
    First year 1960
  • Type Owner
    Owner W. P. Connally
    Home office Truth Or Consequences, N.M.
    First year 1960

Comments on the production information

  • THE ONLY KNOWN PRODUCTION WAS REPORTED TO BE SEVERAL TONS OF ORE TESTED FOR CONCENTRATION.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 22.86M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1961 CONSISTED OF SEVERAL OPEN CUTS. THE LARGEST OPEN CUT IS ABOUT 40 FT. LONG BY 8 FT. WIDE BY 10 FT. DEEP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FARNHAM, L.L., 1961 USBM IC-8030, P. 124

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

  • Production

    FARNHAM, L.L., 1961 P. 124

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSITS OCCUR AS PODS, IRREGULAR REPLACEMENTS AND FISSURE FILLINGS ALONG NORTHWEST-STRIKING FRACTURES. THE LARGEST MASS IS ABOUT 70 FT. LONG AND FROM 3 TO 10 FT. WIDE. 2 UNPATENTED CLAIMS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-81 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

Beyond USGS

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