Aguilar Brock Canyon Mine

Past Producer in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Fluorine-Fluorite
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 10101829
MRDS ID D009972
Record type Site
Current site name Aguilar Brock Canyon Mine
Alternate or previous names Also Called the Blue Benny Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.49868, 33.06177 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Relative position 9.5 MI N40E OF CLIFF, NM.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Canyon Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mogollon Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Gila(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Gila 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 Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 014S 016W 28 NE New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • PROPERTY IS LOCATED NEAR THE MOUTH OF BROCK CANYON. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1978)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Pyrite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Yellow, White And Reddish Brown Discoloring

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.49868, 33.06177

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N10W
    Dip 70W
    Width 1.07M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1944
Year of last production 1945

Mining district

District name Gila Mining District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Placido And Richard Guerra
    First year 1978

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF DEEP TRENCHES AND THREE SHALLOW SHAFTS CONTAINING AN UNDISCLOSED AMOUNT OF DRIFTING, ALTHOUGH AN ADIT 100 FT LONG WAS DRIVEN ON THE NORTH SIDE OF BROCK CANYON IN 1972.

Comments on development

  • THE PROPERTY CONSISTS OF 4 UNPATENTED CLAIMS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, USBM INF CIRC 8307, P. 41.

  • Deposit

    MCANULTY, WN, 1978, NMBMMR MEM 34, P. 34-35.

  • Deposit

    ROTHROCK, HE, 1946, NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 86.

  • Deposit

    JOHNSTON, WD, 1928, NMBMMR BULL 4, P. 114.

  • Production

    WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, P. 41.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE DEPOSIT FILLS A FAULT FISSURE IN WHICH LITTLE BRECCIA OR WALL ROCK REPLACEMENT HAS OCCURRED, AND FAULT GOUGE IS ABSENT. FLUORITE IS PALE GREEN, MEDIUM TO COARSELY CRYSTALLINE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1983 Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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