Mine detail: Hammond Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

35.47367, -105.37333

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper
Ore:	Chalcocite, Malachite
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Discovery year:	1917

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1917
Last production ended:	1918

Geology

Host rock:	Sangre De Cristo
Host type:	Sandstone
Structure:	Starvation Peak Anticline, Bernal Fault, And The Serafina Monocline
Tectonic:	Sangre De Cristo Uplift
Alteration processes:	The Ore Is Markedly Oxidized.

References

MRDS	D011794
DEP	10014825
Reference	{Deposit:: LINDGREN, W., GRATON, L.C., AND GORDON, C.H., 1910, USGS PP 68, P. 117-122.}{Deposit:: HARLEY, G.T., 1940 NMBMMR BULL 15, P. 57-62.}{Deposit:: SOULE, J.H., 1956, USBM IC 7740, P. 36-39.}{Deposit:: JOHNSON, R.B., 1970, USGS MAP GQ-869}{Deposit:: NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA}
Reporter	Murray, Diane