Location: | Sierra County, New Mexico, United States, North America |
Lat / long: | 32.94233, -107.55393 |
dep_id: | 10072170 |
mrds_id: | W016625 |
Commodity type: | metallic |
Major mineral: | Silver, Gold |
Minor mineral: | Copper |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
Development status: | Producer |
ore: | Chalcopyrite, Gold |
gangue: | Quartz |
orebody_fm: | PINCH AND SWELL |
work_type: | Underground |
conc_proc: | Extensive Oxidation Enrichment |
ore_ctrl: | Rising Mineralized Solutions Were Channeled Along Fault-Fracture Zones And Localized In Voids And Brecciated Zones |
Reporter: | Weeks, Robert, Menzie, David |
hrock_type: | Andesite |
arock_type: | Monzonite,Latite,Andesite |
Structure: | Vein Is Within A Fracture Which Is Part Of A Radiating System Of Fractures Associated With Copper Flat Porphyry. |
Year first produced: | 1877 |
yr_lst_prd: | 1923 |
disc_yr: | 1877 |
References: |
- Deposit:: LINDGREN,W., GRATON,L.C., AND GORDON,C.H., 1910 USGS PP 68, P.275
- Deposit:: HARLEY,G.T., 1934 NMBMMR BULL 10, P.151-154
- Deposit:: HEDLUND,D.C., 1977 USGS MAP MF-900-B
- Deposit:: NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA
- Production:: HEDLUND, 1977 AND HARLEY, 1934 P.141
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