Mine detail: Merritt Mine Prior To 1870

Previously called 'Claim Patented In 1906 Dewey Lode: the Silver Bar Mine and TheBoarding House Tunnel Are Also On the Dewey Lode.'

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Location

Lat / long: 34.0637, -106.94226

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
Associated type:Trachyte

References

MRDSW016992
DEP10072201
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}
ReporterWeeks, Robert, Menzie, David