The Eberle Mine is a gold and silver mine located in Catron county, New Mexico at an elevation of 6,699 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 6,699 Feet (2,042 Meters)
Commodity: Gold, Silver
Lat, Long: 33.39583, -108.80111
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Mine Description
The Eberle mine is on the westernmost vein of the Queen group at its junction with the Maud S. vein. The intersection has been exposed in the workings, but development work has been confined chiefly to the Queen vein. No stopes had been opened in 1916, but in 1919 preparations were being made by the owners, Weatherhead & Cleaveland, to send ore from the mine to the Fanney mill About $10,000 had been produced from development work prior to 1916.
The workings consist of two tunnels from opposite directions and a 50-foot shaft. The northern tunnel follows southward a small vein in andesite, which is apparently one of the Queen group. The vein dips steeply to the east arid apparently the rock on the footwall is the Last Chance andesite and that on the hanging wall the Mogollon andesite. A short crosscut intersects the Maud S. vein, which here nearly parallels the Queen and dips 80° E. The footwall is rhyolite, and the hanging wall is andesite. Postmineral movement parallel to the vein has formed a thick gouge. The southern tunnel cuts the intersection of the Queen and Maud S., which here unite to form a thick mass of quartz and calcite. Here also there has been recent movement along the rhyolite footwall In this tunnel a small streak of very rich oxidized ore carrying cerargyrite and native silver was mined.
A 50-foot shaft near the tunnel portal has disclosed promising sulphide ore. Here the vein, though still well defined, is narrower. having an average width of about 5 feet. Apparently it leaves the main fault, or a branch vein has been followed, for both walls are in rhyolite. Disseminated mixed sulphides of the usual type associated with the silver ores occur both in fine-grained dark quartz and also in the rather coarsely crystalline white calcite that here forms the major part of the vein - an unusual association. Small calcite stringers carrying sulphide minerals also penetrate the rhyolite.
The quartz is irregularly inter grown with the calcite and shows in places a cellular texture. Quartz pseudomorphic after calcite is prominent here and there. The quartz, however, is more commonly rather compact and shows indefinite dark streaks due to the presence of minute dark sulphide minerals, probably in part argentite, which surround and partly replace pyrite grains that are larger but still less than 1 millimeter in diameter. The productive sulphide-bearing quartz grades off into a mixture of fluorite and white quartz free from sulphides.
Source: Geology and Ore Deposits of the Mogollon Mining District New Mexico. USGS Bulletin 787, 1927
Eberle Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Eberle Mine
Secondary: Claim Patented In 1893
Secondary: Eberle
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Tertiary: Copper
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Catron
District: Mogollon Mountains Area: Mogollon District; Cooney District
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
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Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Challenge Mining Co.
Home Office: Mogollon, N.M.
Years: 1981 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
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
Form: PINCH AND SWELL
Structure
Type: L
Description: Eberle Mine Is Located At The Intersection Of The Maud S. Vein And The Queen Vein.
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Argentite
Ore: Gold
Ore: Chlorargyrite
Gangue: Fluorite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Calcite
Comments
Comment (Location): ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE ADIT OF THE EBERLE MINE SHOWN ON THE MOGOLLON TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE.
Comment (Deposit): ONE PATENTED CLAIM COVERING 18.89 ACRES.
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1938 CONSISTED OF A 1500 FT. ADIT.
References
Reference (Deposit): NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA
Reference (Deposit): SCOTT, D.B., 1920 TRANSACTIONS OF AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING ENGINEERS, VOL 63, P. 289-310
Reference (Deposit): FERGUSON, H.G., 1921 USGS BULL 715-L, P. 171-204
Reference (Deposit): FERGUSON, H.G., 1927 USGS BULL 787, 100 PAGES
Reference (Deposit): METZGER, O.H., 1938 USBM IC-6987, P. 14-41
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