Section Nine Mine

Producer in Cibola county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Uranium
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10247010
MAS/MILS ID 0350060137
Record type Site
Current site name Section Nine Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -107.79312, 35.28926 (WGS84)
Elevation 2130
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cibola(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dos Lomas(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Grants(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Albuquerque(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio San Jose(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 Cibola

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 012 N 009 W 04 C New Mexico

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) San Rafael Group

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim
Type of mineral rights Federal Lease

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Anaconda Co.
    Home office New Mexico

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ALSO IN SECTION 9

  • Deposit

    METALLIFEROUS OCCURRENCES IN NM STATE PLANNING OFFICE, 1967

  • Deposit

    P87

  • Deposit

    USGS-PROF PAPER 603,LOWELL S.HILPERT,1969,P59

  • Deposit

    DOS LOMAS TOPO MAP USGS 1957

  • Deposit

    NMBM CIR 29,1955,P.3

  • Deposit

    NMBM INDEX

  • Deposit

    NMBM MEMOIR 15,SOC.ECON.GEOLOGISTS,1963,P.137

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-83 New Mexico Bureau Of Mines And Mineral Resources 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:

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.