Manganese Chief Group

Past Producer in Socorro county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Manganese
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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10101729
MRDS ID D008000
Record type Site
Current site name Manganese Chief Group
Alternate or previous names Johnson-Kelly Manganese Group
Related records 10198735

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.09281, 33.93676 (WGS84)
Elevation 2210
Relative position ABOUT 14.5 MILES S 54 W OF SOCORRO.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Socorro(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Molino Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

San Mateo Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tularosa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio Grande-Albuquerque(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Cibola 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 Socorro

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 004S 002W 30 NW New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE APPROXIMATE CENTER OF THE CLAIM GROUP.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Psilomelane Ore
Pyrolusite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralization Occurs In Numerous Widely Scattered Shear And Breccia Zones.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1917
Discoverer Frank Kelly And Fred Johnson
Year of first production 1953
Year of last production 1958

Mining district

District name Magdalena Mountains Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Rico Mining Co., Frank King Mining Co., Utah Mining And Exploration Co.
    First year 1958
  • Type Owner
    Owner Tom E. Kelly
    First year 1950

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 6.1M
    Overall length 762M
    Overall width 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1961 CONSISTED OF NUMEROUS OPENCUTS, PITS AND A FEW EXPLORATION ADITS. MOST PRODUCTION CAME FROM 14 OPENCUTS WITH AN AGGREGATE LENGTH OF 2500 FT. AND WIDTH OF 300 FT..

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FARNHAM, L.L., 1961 USBM IC-8030, P. 152-154

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    PETTY, D.M., 1979 NMBMMR OFR-106, 174 PAGES, 2 PLATES

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 32 UNPATENTED CLAIMS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1981 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.

External references