Mine detail: Telegraph Mine

Previously called 'ClaimTecumseh'

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Location

Lat / long:

32.78039, -108.62174

Resource(B)

Primary:	Silver
Tertiary:	Fluorine-Fluorite, Manganese
Ore:	Fluorite
Gangue:	Quartz
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1881

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1881

Geology

Host type:	Granite
Associated rock:	Burro Mountain Granite
Associated type:	Granite
Structure:	Major Faults Strike Northwest And Minor Cross Faults Strike Northeast.

References

MRDS	D009519
DEP	10013298
Reference	{Deposit:: JONES,F.A., 1904 NEW MEXICO MINES AND MINERALS,THE NEW MEXICAN PRINTING CO., P. 70-72}{Deposit:: LINDGREN, W., GRATON,L.C., AND GORDON, C.H., 1910 USGS PP 68, P. 325-326}{Deposit:: HEWITT,C.H.,1959 NMBMMR BULL 60, P. 115}{Deposit:: GILLERMAN, E., 1964 NMBMMR BULL 83, P. 160}
Reporter	Menzie, David