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Waldo Tunnel

Past Producer in Socorro county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold
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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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106560
MRDS ID D007917
Record type Site
Current site name Waldo Tunnel
Alternate or previous names Waldo-Graphic Mine: Ozark Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.20838, 34.09315 (WGS84)
Elevation 2220
Relative position ABOUT 18.5 MILES N 82.5 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

Magdalena(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Magdalena(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Socorro(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio Salado(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Socorro

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 002S 004W 36 CENTER New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE MAIN ENTRANCE OF THE WALDO TUNNEL SHOWN ON THE MAGDALENA TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Hedenbergite Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Specularite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicified Limestone

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Nitt Stock
    Rock description Nitt Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Kelly Limestone;Magdalena Group
    Rock description Kelly Limestone;Magdalena Group

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.20838, 34.09315
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description The Graphic Fault Block Is Bounded On The East By The Kelly-Graphic Fault Zone And On The West By The Waldo Fault. Smaller Crossfaults Trend Northwest To Southwest.

Ore body information

  • General form PODS, SHOOTS AND POCKETS

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralized Solutions Rose Along Faults And Replaced Favorable Host Rock.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1879
Year of first production 1879
Year of last production 1961

Mining district

District name Magdalena Mountains Area: Magdalena District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Robert Chamberlin
    Home office Magdalena, N.M.
    First year 1961
  • Type Owner
    Owner Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.)
    Home office 120 Broadway, New York, N.Y.
    First year 1951

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 2590.8M

Comments on the workings information

  • WALDO-GRAPHIC WORKINGS CONTAIN ABOUT 14 DIFFERENT WORKING LEVELS AND INFORMAL PRACTICE DESIGNATES LEVELS BELOW 6 AS THE WALDO MINE. THE WALDO TUNNEL IS ABOUT 2200 FT. LONG. DRIFTS, CROSSCUTS AND STOPES ON LEVELS 7, 8, 9, 10 TOTAL MORE THAN 8500 FT. OF WORKINGS. LEVELS BELOW 10 ARE INACCESSIBLE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W., GRATON, L.C., AND GORDON, C.H., 1910 USGS PP 68, P. 241-258

  • Deposit

    LASKY, S.G., 1932 NMBMMR BULL 8, P. 33-35

  • Deposit

    LOUGHLIN, G.F., AND KOSCHMANN, A.H., 1942 USGS PP 200, 168 PAGES

  • Deposit

    ANDERSON, E.C., 1957 NMBMMR BULL 39, P. 135-139

  • Deposit

    BLAKESTAD, R.B., 1978 NMBMMR OFR-43, 127 PAGES

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE WALDO-GRAPHIC MINE WAS REPORTED IN 1942 TO CONSIST OF CLAIM HOLDINGS COVERING ABOUT 227 ACRES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-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.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.) — acquired by Asarco LLC, subsidiary of Grupo México (2009)
    American Smelting and Refining Co. Filed Chapter 11 in 2005; acquired out of bankruptcy by Grupo México in 2009.

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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