The Irish Rose Mine is a tungsten mine located in Luna county, New Mexico at an elevation of 4,551 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 4,551 Feet (1,387 Meters)
Commodity: Tungsten
Lat, Long: 32.1883, -108.08540
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Irish Rose Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Irish Rose Mine
Secondary: Eloi and Morlock Claims
Secondary: Tungsten Hill Shaft
Secondary: Kimmic
Secondary: Brinkman
Secondary: Morlock
Commodity
Primary: Tungsten
Secondary: Beryllium
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Luna
District: Victorio District
Land Status
Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
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
Type: Located Claim
Workings
Type: Surface/Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: D. S. Tedford
Years: 1950 -
Owner Name: Y. E. Nichols, J. H. Winslow, Jesse Kimmick And William Farr
Years: 1940 -
Production
Year: 1905
Time Period: Pre-1905
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Year First Production: 1945
Discovery Year: 1905
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
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: PINCH AND SWELL
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Ordovician
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Ordovician
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: AVERAGE GRADE OF VEIN 0.1% WO3, 0.6% BEO
Materials
Ore: Beryl
Ore: Wolframite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Scheelite
Gangue: Fluorite
Gangue: Muscovite
Gangue: Limonite
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Wulfenite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): $70,000 WORTH OF W BEFORE 1943 ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Comment (Location): ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE MAIN SHAFT.
Comment (Reserve-Resource): POSSIBLY 1,200 TONS OF 0.105 % WO3 REMAINING
Comment (Workings): INCLINED SHAFT 150 FT DEEP
References
Reference (Deposit): DALE, V.B., AND MCKINNEY, W.A., 1959 USBM RI-5517, P. 36-38
Reference (Deposit): THORMAN, C.H., AND DREWES, H., 1980 USGS MISC. FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-1175
Reference (Deposit): NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA
Reference (Deposit): GRISWOLD, G. B., 1961, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LUNA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: NEW MEXICO BUREAU MINES AND MINERAL RES. BULL. 72, P 87-89
Reference (Deposit): HOLSER, W. T., 1953, BERYLLIUM MINERALS IN THE VICTORIO MOUNTAINS, LUNA COUNTY, N. MEX.: AM. MINERALOGIST, V. 38, P. 601-602
Reference (Deposit): LINDGREN, W., GRATON, L.C., AND GORDON, C.H., 1910 USGS PP 68, P. 202
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