Hillsboro District

Past Producer in Sierra county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Iron, Manganese
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Alteration
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60001671
MRDS ID W006774
Record type District
Current site name Hillsboro District
Alternate or previous names Las Animas

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.5339, 32.93341 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sierra(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hillsboro(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hatch(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Las Cruces(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Caballo(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande-Caballo(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Mimbres(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 Sierra

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Secondary
Iron Secondary
Manganese Critical Secondary

Alteration

  • (Local) SILICIFICATION
  • (Local) CHLORITIZATION

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.5339, 32.93341

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure name FAULTING
Structure description FAULT W/2000 FT. THROW
Type of structure Regional
Structure description TROUGH-20 MI. WIDE; MOUNTAINS TREND N-S; CONSIDERABLE DISPLACEMENT ALONG FAULT

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault/fracture

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Discovery year 1877
Discoverer 2 Prospectors
Year of first production 1877

Mining district

District name HILLSBORO DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Beyond USGS

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