The Bluebird Mine is a gold mine located in Grant county, New Mexico at an elevation of 5,650 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 5,650 Feet (1,722 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 32.41333, -108.53444
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Bluebird Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Bluebird Mine
Secondary: Bluebird Tungsten Deposit
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Lead
Tertiary: Tungsten
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Grant
District: Gold Hill District: Engineer Canyon Area
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
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: Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Harry Wallace And Norman Reese
Years: 1950 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year Last Production: 1900
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: Schist
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Ore: Wolframite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Scheelite
Comments
Comment (Location): ACCURATE LOCATION AS SHOWN ON USGS MISCELLANEOUS FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-1035.
Comment (Production): DALE AND MCKINNEY ESTIMATED SEVERAL HUNDRED TONS OF GOLD ORE WAS TAKEN FROM THE OLD WORKINGS PRIOR TO 1900. ABOUT FIVE TONS ORE WAS STOCKPILED AT THE MINE DURING THE 1950'S AND ACCORDING TO THE OWNER A GRAB SAMPLE FROM THE PILE ASSAYED ABOUT 0.4 OZ AU/TON AND 0.5 % WO3..
Comment (Deposit): TWO UNPATENTED CLAIMS IN THE 1950'S.
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1959 CONSISTED OF AN INCLINED SHAFT ABOUT 105 FT. DEEP AND SEVERAL INACCESSIBLE SHAFTS AND ADITS.
References
Reference (Deposit): HEDLUND, D., UNPUBLISHED U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOL. MAPS
Reference (Deposit): GILLERMAN, E., 1964, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF WESTERN GRANT COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: NEW MEXICO BUREAU MINES AND MINERAL RES. BULL. 83, P 125
Reference (Deposit): DALE, V. B., AND MCKINNEY, W. A., 1959, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF NEW MEXICO: U.S. BUREAU MINES, REPT. INV. 5517, P 15-17
Reference (Deposit): HEDLUND, D.C., 1978 USGS MISC. FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-1035
Reference (Deposit): NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA
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