Tom Payne Mine

Past Producer in Santa Fe county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper
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. Geologic structures
  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 10101431
MRDS ID D002963
Record type Site
Current site name Tom Payne Mine
Alternate or previous names Mine: Tom Paine, Claim: Tom Paine Or Tom Payne
Related records 10272927

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.13224, 35.4995 (WGS84)
Elevation 1963
Relative position ABOUT 18.4 MILES S 40 W OF SANTA FE, NM

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Fe(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Madrid(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Albuquerque(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Albuquerque(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio Grande-Santa Fe(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(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 Santa Fe

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 015N 008E 30 NE New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS ACCURATE FOR THE SHAFT ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Pyrite Ore
Ankerite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Chalcedony Gangue
Opal Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Espinosa Volcanics
    Rock description Espinosa Volcanics
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Espinosa Volcanics
    Rock description Espinosa Volcanics

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.13224, 35.4995

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Faults And Shear Zones
Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults And Shear Zones

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR
    Strike N 10 TO 20 E
    Dip STEEPLY WEST
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 609.6M
    Width 0.91M
    Depth to bottom 94.49M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Vein System

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1879
Year of first production 1885

Mining district

District name Cerrillos

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Mineral Products Corp.
    Home office Albuquerque, Nm
    First year 1961

Comments on the production information

  • THE RECORDED PRODUCTION FOR THE PERIOD 1911 TO 1952 WAS ABOUT 7000 TONS; THE ORE WAS HIGH IN ZINC COMPARED TO THE AVERAGE FOR THE DISTRICT.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 702.56M
    Overall depth 94.49M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF THE MAIN INCLINE SHAFT AND 6 LEVELS WHICH DEVELOPED THE VEIN LATERALLY TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH. THE SHAFT INCLINES 79 TO 86 DEGREES TO THE WEST, FOLLOWING THE VEIN TO A DEPTH OF 310 FEET BELOW THE OUTCROP. IN 1945, LEVEL 1 WAS AT 102-FT DEPTH AND 820 FEET LONG; LEVEL 2 WAS AT 175-FT DEPTH AND 785 FEET LONG; LEVEL 3 WAS AT 271-FT AND 330 FEET LONG; LEVEL 4 WAS AT 295-FT AND 60 FEET LONG. IN 1951 A NEW LEVEL WAS OPENED AT 250 FEET WITH DRIFTS 125 FEET TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH. IN 1955 ANOTHER LEVEL WAS OPENED AT 200 FEET AND WAS 60 FEET LONG. DISBROW AND STOLL (1957) HAVE A MINE MAP OF THE TOM PAYNE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DISBROW, A.E. AND W.C. STOLL, 1957, NMBMMR BULL 48, P. 53-54

  • Deposit

    ELSTON, W.E., 1967, NMBMMR BULL 81, P. 30-33

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE VEIN IS A NARROW ZONE OF SHEARED AND HYDROTHERMALLY ALTERED MONZONITE CONTAINING THIN TABULAR SHOOTS AND STRINGERS OF ORE. THE VEIN FOLLOWS A SLIGHTLY SINUOUS COURSE; THROUGHOUT MOST OF ITS EXTENT IT STRIKES N 10-20 E, BUT ON THE SECOND LEVEL, 220 FEET NORTH OF THE SHAFT, IT BENDS MORE TO THE NORTHEAST. THIS CURVE COINCIDES WITH THE NORTH END OF THE RICHEST ORE SHOOT MINED. THE DIPS ARE STEEP TO THE WEST, WITH REVERSAL OF DIP INDICATED LOCALLY. THE ORE SHOOTS ARE ELONGATE ALONG THE STRIKE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1977 Hasler, J. William U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1984 Murray, Diane U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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