The Three Brothers Claim is a lead and zinc mine located in Grant county, New Mexico.
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Three Brothers Claim MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Three Brothers Claim
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Primary: Zinc
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Grant
District: Fierro Manganese District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
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: Mimbres Fault
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Limestone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Permian
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Galena
Ore: Sphalerite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Production): PROBABLY SOME PRODUCTION BUT AMOUNT UNKNOWN
Comment (Deposit): QUARTZ VEINS IN BRECCIA ZONE AT INTERSECTION OF TWO NE-TRENDING FAULTS IN PALEOZOIC LIMESTONES IN HANGING WALL OF NW-TRENDING MIMBRES FAULT.
Comment (Workings): SHAFT
References
Reference (Deposit): MOORE, S. L., U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNPUBLISHED DATA, 1956
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