The Georgetown Mines is a silver mine located in Grant county, New Mexico.
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Georgetown Mines MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Georgetown Mines
Secondary: Includes: Naiad Queen
Secondary: Commercial Cramer
Secondary: Macgregor
Secondary: Mcnulty
Secondary: And Satisfaction.
Commodity
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Lead
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Grant
District: Georgetown District, Mimbres District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Mimbres Mining Co.
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1873
Year Last Production: 1893
Discovery Year: 1866
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
Model Name: Polymetallic replacement
Orebody
Form: IRREGULAR
Structure
Type: R
Description: General Dip Of Sedimentary Beds Is 10-20w Of South Edge Of An Anticline
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Silicification, Oxidation
Rocks
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Silurian
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Cerargyrite
Ore: Argentite
Ore: Pyrargyrite
Ore: Silver
Ore: Bromyrite
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Production): PRODUCTION VALUED AT $3.5 MILLION IN AG
Comment (Development): DISCOVERED IN 1866, WITH MAJOR PRODUCTION BETWEEN 1873-1893.
Comment (Geology): SOME DIKES SEEM TO FOLLOW FAULT PLANES, DIKES CUT THROUGH ALL SEDIMENTARY UNITS.
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS GENERALLY LESS THAN 60 M. DEEP; AT NAIAD QUEEN WORKINGS GO TO A DEPTH OF 180 M.
Comment (Deposit): IRREGULAR OXIDIZED BODIES IN FUSSELMAN DOLOMITE, SOME LOCALIZED NEAR CONTACTS WITH GRANODIORITE PORPHYRY DIKES.
Comment (Deposit): ORE BODIES IN ORDOVICIAN LIMESTONE, WHICH CONTAINS MANY NARROW VUGS COMMONLY LINED WITH CALCITE CRYSTALS AND SOME LARGER ONES WITH STALACTITES AND STALAGMITES. DIKES PROBABLY DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE INTRUSION AT SANTA RITA AND HANOVER. THIS RECORD INCLUDES DATA FROM RECORD W006781 BY SUE A. BILBEY WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
References
Reference (Deposit): LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, GRATON, L. C., AND GORDON, C. H., 1910, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 68, P. 318-319.
Reference (Deposit): HERNON, R. M., COMPILER, 1949, WEST TEXAS GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY AND SOUTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO SECTION, AIME GUIDEBOOK, FIELD TRIP 3, P. 38.
Reference (Deposit): ANDERSON, E. C., 1957, NMBMMR BULL. 39, P. 67.
Reference (Deposit): LASKY, S. G., AND WOOTTEN, T. P., 1933, NMBMMR BULL. 7, P. 56-57.
Reference (Deposit): HEDLUND, D. C., UNPUBLISHED FIELD MAP.
Reference (Deposit): USGS AND OTHERS, 1965, MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES OF NEW MEXICO, NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 87, P. 139-149.
Reference (Deposit): 1905 COMPILE L.C. GRATON
Reference (Deposit): 1910 COMPILE LINDGREN
Reference (Deposit): 1959 COMPILE NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MINES
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