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Legal Tender Mine

Past Producer in Colfax county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead
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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 10097843
MRDS ID D009020
Record type Site
Current site name Legal Tender Mine
Alternate or previous names Claim, Legal Tender

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.22889, 36.6106 (WGS84)
Elevation 3139
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 49 MILES S 66 W OF RATON.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Colfax(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Touch-Me-Not Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wheeler Peak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Raton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cimarron(hydrologic unit)

Upper Canadian(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Canadian(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Colfax

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 028N 016E 34 SW New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • GEODETIC AND UTM LOCATION IS FOR THE APPROXIMATE CENTER OF THE LEGAL TENDER CLAIM. CADASTRAL GRID PROJECTED.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Lead Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Altered Shale Shows Effects Of Contact Metamorphism.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Rock unit name Pierre Shale
    Rock description Pierre Shale

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.22889, 36.6106
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PODS AND SHOOTS
    Strike N 10 E
    Dip 60 SW TO VERTICAL
    Thickness 0.91M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralization Occurs In Fractures And At The Shale-Porphyry Contact.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of last production 1937

Mining district

District name Baldy District: Willow Creek Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner R. Harvey
    First year 1937
  • Type Owner
    Owner Emma Lou Matkin
    First year 1940

Comments on the production information

  • PETITT, R.F., JR., 1966, REPORTED PRODUCTION VALUE FROM GOLD ORES OF AT LEAST 25000 DOLLARS.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 121.92M
    Overall depth 45.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED TO CONSIST OF A 150 FT. SHAFT WHICH WAS SUNK FROM NEAR THE END OF A 200 FT. LONG TUNNEL AND DRIFTED ABOUT 200 FT. ALONG THE VEIN FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SHAFT. NMBMMR BULL 94, PLATE 1, SHOWS NINE ADITS AT THE LEGAL TENDER MINE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W., GRATON, L.C., AND GORDON, C.H., 1910 USGS PP 68, P. 100

  • Deposit

    PETITT, R.F., JR., 1946 NMBMMR OFR-15, P. 38

  • Deposit

    PETITT, R.F., JR., 1966 NMGS GUIDEBOOK SEVENTEENTH FIELD CONFERENCE, P. 69-73

  • Deposit

    CLARK, K.F., AND READ, C.B., 1972 NMBMMR BULL 94, P. 121-124, PLATE 1

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ONE CLAIM.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-82 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.

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