The Harding Deposit 1929 is a fluorine-fluorite and lead mine located in Sierra county, New Mexico at an elevation of 5,000 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 5,000 Feet (1,524 Meters)
Commodity: Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead
Lat, Long: 33.04472, -107.21361
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Harding Deposit 1929 MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Harding Deposit 1929
Secondary: Red Top Group 1906: Claims
Secondary: Red Top
Secondary: Red Top Annex
Secondary: Gladys
Secondary: Biliken: Harding Group 1929
Secondary: Claims
Secondary: Humbolt No. 1
Secondary: Humbolt No. 2: Electra Mines 1946: Imperial Corp. Property:
Secondary: Senator No. 1
Secondary: Senator No. 2
Commodity
Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Primary: Lead
Secondary: Vanadium
Secondary: Copper
Tertiary: Molybdenum
Tertiary: Barium-Barite
Tertiary: Zinc
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Sierra
District: Sierra Caballos 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
Not available
Workings
Type: Surface/Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Imperial Corp.
Home Office: Albuquerque, N.M.
Years: 1957 -
Owner Name: Electra Mines-Blanchard Hanson
Years: 1947 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1910
Year Last Production: 1947
Discovery Year: 1906
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
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Some Parts Of The Vein Are Open Textured And Spongy From Surface Water Leaching.
Rocks
Name: Limestone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pennsylvanian
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: 3% CACO3.
Analytical Data: 3% SIO2
Analytical Data: FLUORITE VEIN SAMPLE CONTAINED 93% CAF2
Materials
Ore: Wulfenite
Ore: Barite
Ore: Descloizite
Ore: Vanadinite
Ore: Malachite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Fluorite
Gangue: Calcite
Comments
Comment (Commodity): ANALYTICAL DATA FROM W.D. JOHNSON, 1928 P.41.
Comment (Location): DEPOSIT IS LOCATED ON THE WEST FLANK OF THE CABALLOS MOUNTAINS ABOUT 0.5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PALOMAS GAP.
Comment (Production): FLUORSPAR PRODUCTION REPORTED AS 865 TONS.
Comment (Deposit): NORTHEAST TRENDING VEINS RANGING FROM 1 FT. TO 4 FT. WIDE CONTAIN BRECCIATED LIMESTONE FRAGMENTS CEMENTED BY CALCITE, QUARTZ AND FLUORSPAR. SOME GALENA IS SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE VEINS AND WHERE OXIDATION IS EXTENSIVE VANADINITE, CERUSSITE, ANGLESITE AND WULFENITE ARE PRESENT. DEPOSIT ORIGINALLY COVERED BY 4 UNPATENTED CLAIMS (1906). RELOCATED AND COVERED BY 2 UNPATENTED CLAIMS (1929).
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1966 CONSISTED OF A 90 FT. DEEP SHAFT WITH 50 FT. OF DRIFTING, A 30 FT. INCLINE WHICH PENETRATES A NATURAL CAVE, TWO 150 FT. DEEP VANADIUM PROSPECT SHAFTS AND AN OPEN CUT WITH A NEARBY SHAFT 20 FT. DEEP.
Comment (Geology): FOR REGIONAL GEOLOGY SEE SIERRA CABALLOS DISTRICT
References
Reference (Production): WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966 P.106
Reference (Deposit): 8) NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA
Reference (Deposit): 7) HESS, F.L., 1913 USGS BULL 530, P. 157-160
Reference (Deposit): 6) MCANULTY, W.N., 1978 NMBMMR MEM 34, P. 19
Reference (Deposit): 5) WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966 USBM IC-8307, P. 105-106
Reference (Deposit): KELLEY, V.C. AND SILVER, C., 1952 UNIV OF N.M. PUB NO 4, P. 198-218
Reference (Deposit): HARLEY, G.T., 1934 NMBMMR BULL 10, P. 203-204
Reference (Deposit): ROTHROCK, H.E., JOHNSON, C.H. AND HAHN, A.D., 1946 NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 160-161
Reference (Deposit): JOHNSON, W.D., 1928 NMBMMR BULL 4, P.41-42
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