Mine detail: Nacimiento Mountains District

Previously called 'Nacimiento Copper Uranium ProjectNacimiento DepositSierra Nacimiento DistrictNacimiento MineSan FrancescaSan Miguel MineSenoritoSenoritaNaciemento MineNaciemiento MineEureka MineCopper City'

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Location

Lat / long:

35.99394, -106.8978

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper
Secondary:	Silver
Discovery year:	1850

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	DISSEMINATED RED-BED COPPER, DISSEMINATED METAMORPHIC COPPER
Production size:	Large
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1880
Last production ended:	1974

Geology

Structure:

NACIMIENTO, BLUE BIRD, AND EL CAJETE FAULTS, AND A MAJOR MONOCLINAL FOLD

References

MRDS	D012095
DEP	60000393
Reference	{Deposit:: JONES, F.A., 1904, NEW MEXICO MINES AND MINERALS, NEW MEXICAN PRINTING CO., P. 187-189.}{Deposit:: LINDGREN, W., GRATON, L.C., AND GORDON, C.H., 1910, USGS PP 68, P. 143-145.}{Deposit:: SOULE, J.H., 1956, USBM IC 7740, P. 44-47.}{Deposit:: ANDERSON, E.C., 1957, NMBMMR BULL 39, P. 108-109.}{Deposit:: ELSTON, W.E., 1967, NMBMMR BULL 81, P. 25-29.}{Deposit:: TALBOTT, L.W., 1974, NMGS GUIDEBOOK, 25TH FIELD CONFERENCE, P. 301-303.}{Deposit:: WOODWARD, L.A., AND OTHERS, 1974, ECON GEOL., V. 69, P. 108-120.}{Deposit:: WOODWARD, L.A., KAUFMAN, W.H., AND SCHUMACHER, O.L., 1974, NMGS GUIDEBOOK, 25TH FIELD CONFERENCE, P. 295-297.}{Deposit:: NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA}{Deposit:: McLemore, V.T., and Hoffman, G., 2005, Mineral deposits in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society, 56th Field Conference Guidebook, Geology of the Chama Basin, p. 445-456.}
Reporter	Wilson, Anna B.