The Old Placers is a gold mine located in Santa Fe county, New Mexico.
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Mine Info
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Old Placers MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Old Placers
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Santa Fe
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1828
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Sacramento Section
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Deposit): 3,100,000 G CONTAINED AU
Comment (Geology): QUATERNARY AND TERTIARY GRAVELS IN DOLORES AND CUNNINGHAM GULCHES; LOW GRADE MATERIAL IN LUCAS CANYON; BEST GRAVELS FROM UPPER PART OF ALLUVIAL FAN AT MOUTH OF CUNNINGHAM GULCH. BEDROCK SOURCE: OLIGOCENE VEIN, BRECCIA DEPOSITS.
References
Reference (Deposit): JOHNSON, M.G., 1972, PLACER GOLD DEPOSITS OF NEW MEXICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1348, P. 46.
Reference (Deposit): MCLEMORE, V.T., AND NORTH, R.M., 1984, OCCURRENCES OF PRECIOUS METALS AND URANIUM ALONG THE RIO GRANDE RIFT IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO, IN SCOTT, B.W., ED., RIO GRANDE RIFT; NORTHERN NEW MEXICO: NEW MEXICO GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY GUIDEBOOK, 206-207 P.
Reference (Deposit): ORRIS, G.J., AND BLISS, J.D.,1985, GEOLOGIC AND GRADE-VOLUME DATA ON 330 GOLD PLACER DEPOSITS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 85-213, 172 P.
Reference (Other Database): CIMRI
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