The Marion Mine 1920 is a copper mine located in Sierra county, New Mexico at an elevation of 5,049 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 5,049 Feet (1,539 Meters)
Commodity: Copper
Lat, Long: 33.02778, -107.23611
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Marion Mine 1920 MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Marion Mine 1920
Secondary: Victoria Mine 1909: Fidelity Group 1909: Patented Claims
Secondary: Marion
Secondary: Ida
Secondary: Cora
Secondary: Rebecca
Secondary: Hillsborough
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Secondary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Tertiary: Fluorine-Fluorite
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: Vernon Blye
Years: 1966 -
Owner Name: Seymour S. Thurmond Jr.
Years: 1947 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1909
Year Last Production: 1947
Discovery Year: 1880
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: PINCH AND SWELL
Structure
Type: L
Description: Many Small East-West Trending Faults Cut Across North-South Trending Caballos Mts.
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Quartzite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cambrian
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: SAMPLES ASSAYED FOR FLUORITE AVERAGED 56% CAF2 AND 31% SIO2.
Analytical Data: MATERIAL ON DUMP REPORTED TO AVERAGE 1.4% CU
Analytical Data: ORE REPORTED TO ASSAY 3% TO 11% CU
Materials
Ore: Fluorite
Ore: Chrysocolla
Ore: Malachite
Ore: Chalcocite
Ore: Bornite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Clay
Gangue: Calcite
Comments
Comment (Commodity): ASSAYS REPORTED BY G.T. HARLEY, 1934, AND F.E. WILLIAMS, 1966.
Comment (Location): ON THE EAST FLANK OF THE CABALLOS MOUNTAINS AND SOUTH OF PALOMAS GAP.
Comment (Production): HARLEY REPORTED THAT PAST PRODUCTION VALUE AMOUNTED TO 100000 DOLLARS WORTH OF ORE, MAINLY COPPER, BUT SOME SILVER AND A TRACE OF GOLD.
Comment (Deposit): FISSURE VEINS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH EAST-WEST TRENDING FAULT ZONE. NEAR THE ENTRANCE TO THE MINE THE VEINS ARE IN PRECAMBRIAN GRANITE. MOST OF THE ORE IS FOUND IN BLISS SANDSTONE EAST OF THE MINE ENTRANCE. NEAR THE END OF THE MAIN ADIT THE VEINS PASS INTO EL PASO LIMESTONE AND CONSIST OF SMALL STRINGERS OF FLUORITE AND CALCITE. THE FAULT BECOMES LESS DISTINCT IN THE LIMESTONE. 5 PATENTED CLAIMS COVERING 103.3 ACRES.
Comment (Workings): MARION MINE REPORTED TO CONSIST OF AN 800 FT ADIT WITH A WINZE 120 FT DEEP AND DRIFTED FOR SHORT DISTANCES AT 100 FT AND 120 FT LEVELS. SURFACE WORKINGS AMOUNT TO A FEW SHALLOW PITS, OPEN CUS AND SHAFTS.
Comment (Geology): G.T. HARLEY, 1934, BELIEVED THE MINERAL SOURCE TO BE A DEEP SEATED INTRUSIVE OF TERTIARY AGE EXPOSED ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE CABALLOS MTS. JUST EAST OF THE MARION MINE.
Comment (Deposit): FOR REGIONAL TRENDS, TECTONIC SETTING AND GENERAL GEOLOGY SEE SIERRA CABALLOS DISTRICT. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
References
Reference (Deposit): 5) NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA
Reference (Production): HARLEY, G.T., 1934
Reference (Deposit): JOHNSTON, W.D. JR., 1928 NMBMMR BULL 4, P.40
Reference (Deposit): HARLEY, G.T., 1934 NMBMMR BULL 10, P.207
Reference (Deposit): WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966 USBM IC 8307, P.106
Reference (Deposit): MCANULTY, W.N., 1978 NMBMMR MEMOIR 34, P.42
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