The Lone Mountain Manganese Mine is a manganese and silver mine located in Grant county, New Mexico at an elevation of 5,850 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 5,850 Feet (1,783 Meters)
Commodity: Manganese, Silver
Lat, Long: 32.72889, -108.21389
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Lone Mountain Manganese Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Lone Mountain Manganese Mine
Secondary: Tom Lyons Mine
Secondary: Sweet Home Group: Patented Claims
Secondary: Corliss
Secondary: Sweet Home
Secondary: El Campo: Unpatented Claims
Secondary: Joe Nos. 1 and 2
Secondary: Hilltop
Commodity
Primary: Manganese
Primary: Silver
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Grant
District: Lone Mountain 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: Fierro Manganese Corp.
Owner Name: C. R. Altman And Associates
Years: 1950 -
Production
Year: 1955
Time Period: 1942 To 1955
Material type: ORE MN
Description: Cp_Grade: ^Average Grade About 30% Mn.
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1885
Year Last Production: 1955
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
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
Form: IRREGULAR
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Quartz Latite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Name: Quartz Latite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Mississippian
Name: Quartz Latite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Mississippian
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Chlorargyrite
Ore: Pyrolusite
Ore: Silver
Ore: Wad
Ore: Argentite
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Jasper
Comments
Comment (Location): ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE WORKINGS ON THE CORLISS CLAIM.
Comment (Deposit): THREE PATENTED CLAIMS MINERAL SURVEY NUMBERS 1491 AND 1492 COVERING 61.931 ACRES, AND THREE UNPATENTED CLAIMS.
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1961 CONSISTED OF THREE SHALLOW SHAFTS AND NUMEROUS OPEN CUTS AND PROSPECT PITS.
References
Reference (Deposit): FARNHAM, L.L., 1961 USBM IC-8030, P. 26-27
Reference (Deposit): PRATT, W.P., 1967 USGS BULL 1241-E, P. 82-85, PLATE 1
Reference (Deposit): NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA
Reference (Production): FARNHAM, L.L., 1961, P. 26.
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