The Ivanhoe Mine is a copper and lead mine located in Grant county, New Mexico.
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Ivanhoe Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Ivanhoe Mine
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Primary: Lead
Secondary: Zinc
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Gold
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Grant
District: Bayard District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1904
Year Last Production: 1907
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
Type: L
Description: Groundhog-Ivanhoe Fault
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Chalcocite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): VEINS ALONG SPLAYED NORTHEAST END OF GROUNDHOG-IVANHOE FAULT AND DIKE SYSTEM. VEINS CHIEFLY BETWEEN GRANODIORITE PORPHYRY DIKE (HANGING WALL) AND CRETACEOUS COLORADO FORMATION AND QUARTZ DIORITE SILL (FOOTWALL).
Comment (Workings): 65 M. SHAFT AND 115 M. SHAFT
Comment (Geology): ONE REFERENCE REFERS TO THE HOST ROCK AS BEING PENNSYLVANIAN SYRENA FORMATION.
Comment (Production): CONSIDERABLE PRODUCTION, BUT AMOUNT UNKNOWN. ORE GRADES REPORTED TO BE: 6.2% CU, 3.2 OZ/TON AG, AND .1 OZ/TON AU.
Comment (Development): RICH SUPERGENE ORES MINED PRIOR TO 1904. SOME MINING OF SULFIDE ORES UP UNTIL 1907. IDLE SINCE 1907.
References
Reference (Deposit): SPENCER, A. C., AND PAIGE, SIDNEY, 1935, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 859, P. 75.
Reference (Deposit): LASKY, S. G., 1936, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 870, P. 118-119.
Reference (Deposit): LASKY, S. G., AND HOAGLAND, A. D., 1948, IN SYMPOSIUM ON GEOLOGY, PARAGENESIS, AND RESERVES OF ORES OF LEAD AND ZINC: LONDON, INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS, 18TH, 1948, P. A F4 LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, GRATON, L. C., AND GORDON, C. H., 1910, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 68, P. 314.
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