The Lone Mountain Mines is a silver mine located in Grant county, New Mexico.
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Mine Info
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Lone Mountain Mines MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Lone Mountain Mines
Secondary: Includes: Monarch
Secondary: Home Ticket
Secondary: New York
Secondary: And Eighty-Four Mines
Commodity
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Lead
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Grant
District: Lone Mountain 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 Last Production: 1884
Discovery Year: 1871
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
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Silurian
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Silurian
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Cerargyrite
Ore: Silver
Ore: Argentite
Ore: Galena
Comments
Comment (Production): CONSIDERABLE PRODUCTION BUT AMOUNT UNKNOWN. PRODUCED DURING PERIOD BETWEEN 1871 AND 1884. ORE AVERAGED 1,372-2,401 G/T AG IN THE MONARCH MINE.
Comment (Workings): NUMEROUS SHALLOW SHAFTS PROBABLY NO DEEPER THAN 30 M.
Comment (Deposit): THIS RECORD INCLUDES DATA FROM RECORD NUMBER D000064 BY RICHARD P. FISCHER WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Comment (Location): LOCATED BY SHAFT ON MONARCH MINE
Comment (Development): DISCOVERED IN 1871 AND VIRTUALLY MINED OUT BY 1884
Comment (Deposit): VEINS UP TO 2 M. THICK, FOLLOWING VERTICAL CROSS-CUTTING FRACTURES THROUGHOUT THE FUSSELMAN DOLOMITE. MONARCH VEIN STRIKES N AND DIPS VERTICALLY.
References
Reference (Deposit): LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, GRATON, L. C., AND GORDON, C. H., 1910, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 68, P. 321.
Reference (Deposit): PRATT, W. P., U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 1241E, 91 P.
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