Mine detail: Torrence Mine 1880

Previously called 'Known As the New Find During the Late 188
*SAnd As the Sixteen To One In the 189
* Or 190
*.'

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Location

Lat / long:

34.06398, -106.94337

Resource(B)

Primary:	Silver, Gold
Secondary:	Lead, Zinc, Copper
Tertiary:	Barium-Barite, Manganese, Fluorine-Fluorite, Vanadium, Molybdenum, Arsenic
Ore:	Argentite, Descloizite, Galena, Gold, Malachite, Mimetite, Vanadinite, Wulfenite
Gangue:	Quartz
Orebody form:	PODS AND SHOOTS
Other material:	Barite, Fluorite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1880
Last production ended:	1923

Geology

Host type:

Trachyte

References

MRDS	D000052
DEP	10008132
Reference	{Deposit:: JONES, F.A., 1904 NEW MEXICO MINES AND MINERALS, THE NEW MEXICAN PRINTING CO., P. 109-111}{Deposit:: LINDGREN, W., GRATON, L.C., AND GORDON, C.H., 1910 USGS PP 68, P. 239-240}{Deposit:: LASKY, S.G., 1932 NMBMMR BULL 8, P. 118-133}{Deposit:: WILLIAMS, F.E., FILLO, P.V., AND BLOOM, P.A., 1964 NMBMMR CIRC 76, P. 32}
Reporter	Fischer, Richard P., Menzie, David, Mosier, Dan