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

MRDS	W016992
DEP	10072201
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}
Reporter	Weeks, Robert, Menzie, David