The Bert Hoover Lode No. 1 is a molybdenum mine located in San Miguel county, New Mexico at an elevation of 8,638 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 8,638 Feet (2,633 Meters)
Commodity: Molybdenum
Lat, Long: 35.73583, -105.40667
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Bert Hoover Lode No. 1 MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Bert Hoover Lode No. 1
Secondary: Mine: Santo Nino
Secondary: Romero
Secondary: Hoover
Secondary: Claims: Santo Nino No. 1-10
Commodity
Primary: Molybdenum
Tertiary: Copper
Tertiary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Bismuth
Location
State: New Mexico
County: San Miguel
District: El Porvenir 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: M. A. Romero, Eulogio Duran, J. L. Lopez, Charles And James Lujan
Home Office: Las Vegas, Nm.
Years: 1946 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1914
Year Last Production: 1916
Discovery Year: 1950
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Southern Rocky Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: LINEAR
Structure
Type: R
Description: Hermit Peak Thrust Fault
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Molybdenite
Ore: Scheelite
Ore: Bismuthinite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Gangue: Malachite
Gangue: Muscovite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Fluorite
Gangue: Orthoclase
Comments
Comment (Location): LOCATION IS ESTIMATED FROM HARLEY'S (1946, P. 56) DESCRIPTION. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979
Comment (Production): SEVERAL HUNDRED POUNDS OF COARSE, HIGH-GRADE MOLYBDENITE ORE WERE SHIPPED IN 1914; 25 TONS OF MOLYBDENITE ORE WERE MINED IN 1916 BUT APPARENTLY NOT SHIPPED.
Comment (Deposit): MOLYBDENITE, CHALCOPYRITE, SCHEELITE AND BISMUTHINITE OCCUR TOGETHER AS SMALL, SCATTERED POCKETS IN A WHITE, COARSE GRAINED PEGMATIC QUARTZ VEIN STRIKING N 60 E. THE VEIN CUTS PINK, COARSE-GRAINED GRANITE (OR QUARTZ MONZONITE AND CONTAINS SOME ORTHOCLASE, MUSCOVITE, AND FLUORITE. ABUNDANT BROWN LIMONITE AND CANARY-YELLOW FERROMOLYBDITE AND SOME MALACHITE AND AZURITE ARE PRESENT AT THE SURFACE.
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 90-FOOT SHAFT AND AN 800-FOOT ADIT (200 FEET BELOW THE SHAFT.).
Comment (Geology): THE PRECAMBRIAN HAS NO FORMAL NAME IN THIS AREA.
Comment (Deposit): Discovery Year: 1900'S
References
Reference (Deposit): SCHILLING, J.H., 1965, NMBMMR BULL 76, P. 43
Reference (Deposit): HARLEY, G.T., 1940, NMBMMR BULL 15, P. 56-57
Reference (Deposit): HORNTON, F.W., 1916, USBM BULL 111, P. 78
Reference (Deposit): BUSH, F.V., 1915, "THE ROMERO MOLYBDENUM MINE", MIN. AND SCI. PRESS, V. 110, P. 354
Reference (Deposit): COOPER, J. R., 1962, BISMUTH OF U.S.: USGS MR - 22
Reference (Deposit): NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA
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