The Water Canyon Manganese Mine 1914 is a manganese mine located in Socorro county, New Mexico at an elevation of 7,402 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 7,402 Feet (2,256 Meters)
Commodity: Manganese
Lat, Long: 34.02222, -107.12250
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Water Canyon Manganese Mine 1914 MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Water Canyon Manganese Mine 1914
Secondary: Known As the Cliffside Mine Or Cliffside Claims In the 1940's and As
Secondary: The Manganese Queen Mine In the 1950'sS.
Commodity
Primary: Manganese
Tertiary: Barium-Barite
Tertiary: Tungsten
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Socorro
District: Magdalena Mountains Area: Water Canyon District
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: George L. Harrison
Home Office: Palacios, Tex.
Years: 1960 -
Owner Name: El Tigre Mining Co.
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1915
Year Last Production: 1958
Discovery Year: 1914
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Mexican Highland
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: LENSE
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Pyrolusite
Ore: Hollandite
Ore: Psilomelane
Gangue: Limonite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Calcite
Unknown: Barite
Comments
Comment (Location): LOCATED ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTH OF THE KELLY RANCH ON THE EAST SIDE OF WATER CANYON AND AT THE BASE OF A STEEP SLOPE. LOCATED WITHIN THE CIBOLA NATIONAL FOREST.
Comment (Production): DURING WORLD WAR I ABOUT 850 TONS OF SORTED ORE CONTAINING MORE THAN 40 % MN WAS PRODUCED. SMALL PRODUCTION OF UNKNOWN TONNAGE AND GRADE OCCURRED IN THE EARLY 1940'S. FROM 1953 TO 1954 18.5 LONG TONS OF SORTED ORE AVERAGING 29.5 % MN WAS PRODUCED AND IN 1958 ABOUT 100 TONS OF MINE DUMPS WERE CONCENTRATED IN A SMALL GRAVITY MILL NEAR SOCORRO, N.M.
Comment (Deposit): DEPOSIT OCCURS AS A LENTICULAR MASS ALONG A NORTHEAST-STRIKING FRACTURE ZONE. KNOWN LENGTH OF THE DEPOSIT IS 60 FT., WIDTH RANGES FROM 2 FT. TO 25 FT. AND DEPTH ABOUT 80 FT. 2UNPATENTED CLAIMS.
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1961 WERE INACCESSIBLE AND CONSISTED OF AN ADIT, AN INCLINED SHAFT, TWO WINZES, AND SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET OF LATERAL WORK ON THE ADIT LEVEL.
Comment (Geology): FOR REGIONAL GEOLOGY SEE MAGDALENA MOUNTAINS AREA.
References
Reference (Deposit): WELLS, E.H., 1918 NMBMMR BULL 2, P. 71-73
Reference (Deposit): HEWETT, D.F., AND FLEISCHER, M., 1960, ECON. GEOL., VOL. 55, NO. 1, P. 1-55.
Reference (Deposit): LEMMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA.
Reference (Deposit): LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.
Reference (Production): FARNHAM, L.L., 1961 P. 166
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