Mine detail: Squaw Creek Placer - Lode Deposit

Previously called 'Squaw Creek Placer { Lode Deposit'

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Location: Catron County, New Mexico, United States, North America
Lat / long: 33.4826, -107.96141
dep_id: 10174384
mas_id: 350030004
Commodity type: metallic
Trace mineral: Iron, Tin
Operation type: Surface-Underground
Development status: Past Producer
other_matl: Cassiterite, Hematite, Kaolinite
Reporter: Hite, Alan G.
Year first produced: 1940
disc_yr: 1908
References:
  • 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
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