Mine detail: Jicarilla Gold Placers

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Location

Lat / long: 33.8615, -105.67305

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Tertiary: Platinum
Discovery year: 1850

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: STREAM PLACER
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1850
Last production ended: 1942

Geology

References

MRDSM045546
DEP60000951
Reference{Deposit:: ELLIS, R.W., 1930, NEW MEXICO MINERAL DEPOSITS EXCEPT FUELS: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO BULLETIN 167, GEOLOGICAL SERIES, V. 4, NO. 2, P. 60.}{Deposit:: NORTHROP, S.A., 1959, MINERALS OF NEW MEXICO, REVISED EDITION: ALBUQUERQUE, UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS, 404 P.}{Deposit:: JOHNSON, M.G., 1972, PLACER GOLD DEPOSITS OF NEW MEXICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1348, P. 12-13.}{Deposit:: LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, GRATON, L.C., AND GORDON, C.H., 1910, THE ORE DEPOSITS OF NEW MEXICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 68, P. 183-184.}{Deposit:: GRISWOLD, G.B., 1959, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LINCOLN COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 67, P. 77-79.}{Deposit:: SEGERSTROM, KENNETH, AND RYBERG, G.E., 1974, GEOLOGY AND PLACER-GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE JICARILLA MOUNTAINS, LINCOLN COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1308, 25 P., PL. 1.}