Mine detail: Squaw Creek Placer - Lode Deposit

Previously called 'Squaw Creek Placer { Lode Deposit'

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Location

Lat / long: 33.4826, -107.96141

Resource(M)

Tertiary: Iron, Tin
Other material: Cassiterite, Hematite, Kaolinite
Discovery year: 1908

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1940

Geology

References

MAS350030004
DEP10174384
Reference{Deposit:: FRIES, CARL, 1940, TIN DEPOSITS OF THE BLACK RANGE, CATRON A}{Deposit:: SIERRA COUNTIES, NEW MEXICO: U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 922-}{Deposit:: 355-70.}{Deposit:: HARLEY, GEORGE T., 1934, THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF SIE}{Deposit:: COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MINES BULL. 10, 2}{Deposit:: HARRINGTON, E. R., 1943, TIN IN NEW MEXICO: MINES MAGAZINE,}{Deposit:: N. 3, PP. 123, 130.}{Deposit:: HILL, J. M., 1921, THE TAYLOR CREEK TIN DEPOSITS, NEW MEXICO}{Deposit:: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 725, PP. 347-59.}{Deposit:: VOLIN, M. E., ET. AL., 1947, CATRON AND SIERRA COUNTIES}{Deposit:: TIN DEPOSITS, NEW MEXICO: U. S. BUREAU OF MINES R. I. 4068}
ReporterHite, Alan G.