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Scheelemite

Prospect in Sierra county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Beryllium, Molybdenum, Tungsten
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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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Mineral rights holdings
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10151416
MAS/MILS ID 0350510636
Record type Site
Current site name Scheelemite
Alternate or previous names Scheelemite Area

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Trench
Geographic coordinates: -107.672, 33.477 (WGS84)
Elevation 2400
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Socorro(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Iron Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Truth or Consequences(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tularosa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Elephant Butte Reservoir(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 Sierra

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 010 S 008 W 02 New Mexico

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Beryllium Critical Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Unknown
Fluorite Unknown
Garnet Unknown
Magnetite Unknown
Powellite Unknown
Quartz Unknown
Scheelite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Trench (1) -107.672, 33.477
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N80W
    Dip 80S
    Thickness 3.7M
    Length 150M
    Width 50M
    Depth to top 1M
    Field Value
    MAS Matrix # 1
    MAS Column # 1
    Type of Orebody #1 DISSEMINATED
    Shape of Orebody #1 TABULAR
    Primary mode of Origin CONT METASOMATIC
    Primary Ore Control CONTACT ZONE
    Secondary Ore Control LITHOLOGY
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. INTENSE
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 CARBONATE SILIC
    Strike And Dip N80W:80S
    Minimum Depth to Top 0
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Date of Last Modification 820917
  • Area 7HA
    Field Value
    Total Surface Area (HA) 7
    Date of Last Modification 910418

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE DIMENSIONS OF THE ORE BODY IN THE GEOMETRY DATA SET ARE RELATED ONLY TO THE SCHEELEMITE AREA TUNGSTEN DEPOSIT, AND DO NOT CONSIDER OTHER SMALL TUNGSTEN SHOWINGS OR THE WHOLE IRON MOUNTAIN DEPOSIT.
  • FORMATION NAME FOR THE SKARN ROCK MASS AND FOR THE APLITE, RHYOLITE AND GRANITE WAS LEFT BLANK BECAUSE THESE ROCK MASSES ARE NOT GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant Yes
Discovery year 1941
Mining method Open Pit
Milling method Gravity

Mining district

District name Iron Mountain District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented
Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Land status

Ownership category Mixed

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner T. C. Parker, Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico.
    Interest 100
    Home office New Mexico
    Year 1982

Comments on the production information

  • ACTUALLY THE IRON MOUNTAIN DEPOSITS WERE DISCOVERED IN 1880, TUNGSTEN IN THE SCHEELEMITE AREA WAS NOT FOUND UNTIL 1941. NO SIGNIFICANT PRODUCTION OF TUNGSTEN WAS RECORDED FOR THE IRON MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT TO DATE.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • THE DATA IN THE QUANTITY MATRIX 1 WAS DERIVED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES OF INFORMATION: 1- U.S. BUREAU OF MINES RI 4035, 2- U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 945-C, AND 3- PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS WITH R.H. JAHNS, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, FEB. 1982 IN ADDITION TO THE LITTLE BERYLLIUM, THE ORE IS KNOWN TO CONTAIN MOLYBDENUM, BUT THE MOLYBDENUM PERCENT IS NOT SUFFICIENTLY DOCUMENTED. Q9C4 = Q1C1.
  • THE ORE IS KNOWN TO CONTAIN VERY LITTLE BERYLLIUM AND SOME MOLYBDENUM, BUT THE ASSAYS ARE NOT CLEARLY REPORTED.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 1HA
    Field Value
    MAS Development Schedule # 1
    Mining Record # 1
    Status of Mining Method PROPOSED
    Mining Method OPEN PIT
    Swell Factor .75
    Percent Waste Rock 79
    Avg. Overburden Thickness 1
    Primary Material Cover SAND, SILT
    Hardness of Ore HARD ROCKS
    Avg. Bench Height (meters) 12
    Max. Pit Slope (degrees) 55
    Capacity 80
    Capacity Units MT ORE/DAY
    Preprod. Stripping Vol. 4
    Unit Production Cost 33.85
    Units of Production $/MT ORE
    Operating Days per Year 200
    Operating Shifts per Day 1
    Year of Information 1982

Comments on other economic factors

  • ACTUALLY THE PRE-PRODUCTION STRIPPING VOLUME IS 3,800 CUBIC METERS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Reserve-Resource

    JAHNS, R. H. AND J.J. GLASS. BERYLLIUM AND TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS

  • Reserve-Resource

    OF THE IRON MOUNTAIN DISTRICT, SIERRA AND SOCORRO COUN-

  • Reserve-Resource

    TIES, NEW MEXICO. U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 945-C,

  • Reserve-Resource

    1944, P. 70.

  • Deposit

    DALE, V.B. AND W.A. MCKINNEY. TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF NEW

  • Deposit

    MEXICO. U.S. BUREAU OF MINES RI 5517, 1959, PP. 56-68.

  • Deposit

    DENVER EQUIPMENT COMPANY. MINERAL PROCESSING FLOW SHEETS.

  • Deposit

    FIRST PRINTING, 1962 (?), PP. 200.

  • Deposit

    HARLEY, G.T. THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF SIERRA COUNTY,

  • Deposit

    NEW MEXICO. NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RE-

  • Deposit

    SOURCES BULL. 10, 1934, PP. 116-119.

  • Deposit

    LASKY, S.G. THE ORE DEPOSITS OF SOCORRO COUNTY, NEW MEXICO.

  • Deposit

    NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES BULL. 8,

  • Deposit

    1932, PP. 138-139.

  • Deposit

    ROTHROCK, H.E., C.H. JOHNSON, AND A.D. HAHN. FLUORSPAR RE-

  • Deposit

    SOURCES OF NEW MEXICO. NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES AND

  • Deposit

    MINERAL RESOURCES BULL. 21, 1946, PP. 167-169.

  • Deposit

    SMYTHE, D.D. A CONTACT METAMORPHIC IRON-ORE DEPOSIT NEAR

  • Deposit

    FAIRVIEW, NEW MEXICO. ECON. GEOL., VOL. 16, 1921,

  • Deposit

    PP. 410-418.

  • Deposit

    STAFFORD, B.T. TUNGSTEN. CH. IN MINERAL FACTS AND PROBLEMS.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 671, 1980, PP. 1-9.

  • Deposit

    STORMS, W.R. IRON MOUNTAIN TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS, SIERRA COUNTY,

  • Deposit

    NEW MEXICO. U.S. BUREAU OF MINES RI 4035, 1947, 5 PP.

  • Deposit

    STORMS, W.R. IRON MOUNTAIN BERYLLIUM DEPOSITS, SIERRA AND

  • Deposit

    SOCORRO COUNTIES, NEW MEXICO. U.S BUREAU OF MINES RI 4024,

  • Deposit

    1947, 13 PP.

  • Deposit

    STROCK, L.W. A NEW HELVITE LOCALITY- A POSSIBLE BERYLLIUM

  • Deposit

    DEPOSIT. ECON. GEOL. VOL. 36, 1941, PP. 748-751.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES CAPITAL AND OPERATING COST ESTIMATING

  • Deposit

    SYSTEM HANDBOOK. STRAAMS ENGINEER., INC. CONTRACT NO.

  • Deposit

    J0255026. REV. ED. JUNE 1979, 374 PP.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MIXED DOMAIN IN THE MILS DATA SET MEANS FEDERAL AND STATE DOMAINS. ACTUALLY BERYLLIUM WOULD NOT AFFECT THE MARKETABILITY OF THE WO3 CONCENTRATE, NEITHER AS CREDIT NOR AS PENALTY.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 09-OCT-96 Amaro, R. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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