The Century Mine is a lead mine located in Hidalgo county, New Mexico at an elevation of 4,800 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 4,800 Feet (1,463 Meters)
Commodity: Lead
Lat, Long: 32.31444, -108.75583
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Century Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Century Mine
Secondary: Eighty-Five Group
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Secondary: Tungsten
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Hidalgo
District: Lordsburg District: Virginia Subdistrict
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
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Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
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
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Andesite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Wulfenite
Gangue: Limonite
Comments
Comment (Location): LOCATION IS SHOWN ON USGS MISC. GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-1151. IN 1910 THE MINE WAS REPORTED TO BE LOCATED WEST OF THE EIGHTY-FIVE MINE WHICH WOULD PLACE IT ON THE NINETY-NINE CLAIM OF THE PATENTED EIGHTY-FIVE GROUP OF CLAIMS.
Comment (Deposit): ON SHORT ENE-TRENDING VEINS BETWEEN EMERALD AND ATWOOD VEINS AT CONTACT OF GRANODIORITE AND ANDESITE.
Comment (Deposit): PRODUCTION BEFORE 1905, UNKNOWN AMOUNT ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
References
Reference (Deposit): LINDGREN, W., GRATON, L. C., AND GORDON, C. H., 1910, THE ORE DEPOSITS OF NEW MEXICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 68, P 335
Reference (Deposit): THORMAN, C.H., AND DREWES, H., 1978 USGS MISC. GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS MAP, I-1151
Reference (Deposit): LASKY, S.G., 1938 USGS BULL 885, PLATE 14
Reference (Deposit): CLARK, K.F., 1970 NMGS GUIDEBOOK 21ST FIELD CONFERENCE, P. 107-113
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