The Cleveland Mine is a zinc mine located in Grant county, New Mexico at an elevation of 7,201 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 7,201 Feet (2,195 Meters)
Commodity: Zinc
Lat, Long: 32.86611, -108.25111
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Cleveland Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Cleveland Mine
Secondary: Cleveland Adit
Secondary: Pershing Adit: Claim Patented In 1892
Secondary: Cleveland
Secondary: Claims of the Cleveland Group Patented In 1910
Secondary: Isabella Grant
Secondary: Cleveland Extension North
Secondary: Copper Extension East
Secondary: Forrest Queen
Secondary: Copper Extension
Secondary: Includes Atlas No. 1 and Atlas No. 2
Commodity
Primary: Zinc
Secondary: Lead
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Gold
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Grant
District: Pinos Altos District
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Surface/Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Empire Zinc Co. ; G.H. Utter
Home Office: New York, N.Y.
Years: 1889 - 1949
Owner Name: D. B. White
Home Office: Silver City, N.M.
Years: 1949 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Replacement
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1895
Year Last Production: 1949
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: M
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Mexican Highland
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Skarn Zn-Pb
Orebody
Form: IRREGULAR, TABULAR
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pennsylvanian
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Galena
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Marmatite
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Rhodochrosite
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Dolomite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): SIX PATENTED CLAIMS MINERAL SURVEY NUMBERS 831 AND 1353 COVERING 119.485 ACRES. IN A ZONE OF COMPLEX NNE-NE FAULTING. PROPERTY IN 1922 LARGER, WITH 18 PATENTED CLAIMS COVERING 363 ACRES.
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS CONSIST OF AT LEAST 6000 FT. OF DRIFTS, CROSSCUTS AND STOPES WITH ACCESS BY TWO ADITS AND SEVERAL SHALLOW SHAFTS, ALSO PITS AND TRENCHES.
Comment (Location): ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE PORTAL OF THE CLEVELAND ADIT IN THE EXTREME NORTHWEST CORNER OF SECTION ONE.
Comment (Production): FROM 1915-1947, 121,000 METRIC TONS OF SULFIDE ORE WAS PRODUCED THAT CONTAINED 9-15% ZN, 1-2% PB, 0.2-1% CU, AND 68-137 G/T AG. MOST PRODUCTION FROM 1915 TO 1919. TAILINGS FROM CLEVELAND MILL RETREATED 1940 TO 1941 AT PERU MINING CO. MILL, DEMING, NM. IN 1905 SOME 200 TO 300 ST ORE MINED FROM SURFACE WORKINGS SENT TO SILVER CITY SMELTER.
Comment (Development): PRIOR TO 1913 SHALLOW OXIDE OR WAS MINED. FROM 1915-1947 SULFIDE ORE WAS MINED. ; ECON.COM: MAGNETIC SEPARATION MILL OPERATED 1915-1919 BY EMPIRE ZINC CO. ; MILL.CAP : 125 ST/DAY
Comment (Deposit): RECORD # D011695 BY CLINT E. SEANOR HAS BEEN INCORPORATED INTO THIS RECORD. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
References
Reference (Deposit): HERNON, R.M., COMPILER, 1949, WEST TEXAS GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY AND SOUTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO SECTION, AIME GUIDEBOOK, FIELD TRIP 3, P. 39-40.
Reference (Deposit): DMEA 1549.
Reference (Production): SOULE, J.H., 1948, U.S. BUREAU OF MINES REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 4237, P. 5.
Reference (Deposit): CUNNINGHAM, J.E., 1974 NMBMMR GEOLOGIC MAP, GM-30
Reference (Deposit): NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA
Reference (Deposit): SOULE, J.H., 1948 USBM RI-4237, 5 PAGES
Reference (Deposit): PAIGE, S., 1911 USGS BULL 470, P. 122-125
Reference (Deposit): LINDGREN, W., GRATON, L.C., AND GORDON, C.H., 1910 USGS PP 68, P. 300-301
Reference (Deposit): PAIGE, S., 1916 USGS GEOLOGIC ATLAS OF U.S., FOLIO 199
Reference (Deposit): LASKY, S.G., AND WOOTTON, T.P., 1933 NMBMMR BULL 7, P. 58-59
Reference (Deposit): ANDERSON, E.C., 1957 NMBMMR BULL 39, P. 70-71
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