Ladrons Mountains Area

Past Producer in Socorro county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Manganese, Vanadium, Lead, Copper, Mercury
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Controls for ore emplacement
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000971
MRDS ID M054821
Record type District
Current site name Ladrons Mountains Area
Alternate or previous names Ladron District, Sierra Ladrones, Hanson District, Ladrones Mountains District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.0847, 34.4347 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10000(meters)
Relative position GEODETIC AND UTM LOCATIONS ARE FOR LADRON PEAK, ELEVATION 9176 FEET. ADDITIONAL DRAINAGE AREA CODE IS 13020209. LAND STATUS IS MOSTLY BLM ADMINISTERED BUT ASLO INCLUDES PRIVATE LAND AND STATE SECTIONS. THE LADRONS MOUNTAINS ARE ROUGHLY TRIANGULAR AROUND THE BASE AND ABOUT 10 MILES LONG ON EACH SIDE., WITHIN A RADIUS OF 5 MILES.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Socorro(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ladron Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Magdalena(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Socorro(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio Puerco(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NM)

Bureau of Land Management NM BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Socorro

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Uranium Primary
Manganese Critical Primary
Vanadium Critical Secondary
Lead Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Mercury Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.0847, 34.4347

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault/fracture

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant Yes
Discovery year 1868
Discoverer Hanson
Year of first production 1927
Year of last production 1958

Mining district

District name LADRON DISTRICT
District name HANSON DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JONES, F.A., 1904 NEW MEXICO MINES AND MINERALS, THE NEW MEXICAN PRINTING CO., P. 114

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, W.D. JR., 1928 NMBMMR BULL 4, P. 124-125

  • Deposit

    LASKY, S.G., 1932 NMBMMR BULL 8, P. 87-91

  • Deposit

    NORTHROP, S.A., 1944 MINERALS OF NEW MEXICO, U.N.M. PRESS, P. 190-192

  • Deposit

    Chester, 1965, USBM IC-8252, p. 373, 375.

  • Deposit

    Northrop, S.A., 1942, Minerals of New Mexico: Univ. of New Mexico Bulletin Geol. Surv., v. 6, no. 1, p. 114.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Editor 2012-11-29 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.