The Scheelemite is a tungsten mine located in Sierra county, New Mexico at an elevation of 7,874 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 7,874 Feet (2,400 Meters)
Commodity: Tungsten
Lat, Long: 33.4769, -107.67140
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Scheelemite MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Scheelemite
Secondary: Scheelemite Area
Commodity
Primary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Beryllium
Tertiary: Molybdenum
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Sierra
District: Iron Mountain District
Land Status
Land ownership: Mixed
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
Type: Located Claim
Type: Patented
Workings
Type: Surface
Ownership
Owner Name: T. C. Parker, Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico.
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: New Mexico
Info Year: 1982
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
Mining Method: Open Pit
Milling Method: Gravity
Discovery Year: 1941
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
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
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Unknown: Powellite
Unknown: Scheelite
Unknown: Quartz
Unknown: Magnetite
Unknown: Garnet
Unknown: Fluorite
Unknown: Calcite
Comments
Comment (Reserve-Resource): THE DATA IN THE QUANTITY MATRIX 1 WAS DERIVED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES OF INFORMATION: 1- U.S. BUREAU OF MINES RI 4035, 2- U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 945-C, AND 3- PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS WITH R.H. JAHNS, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, FEB. 1982 IN ADDITION TO THE LITTLE BERYLLIUM, THE ORE IS KNOWN TO CONTAIN MOLYBDENUM, BUT THE MOLYBDENUM PERCENT IS NOT SUFFICIENTLY DOCUMENTED. Q9C4 = Q1C1.
Comment (Reserve-Resource): THE ORE IS KNOWN TO CONTAIN VERY LITTLE BERYLLIUM AND SOME MOLYBDENUM, BUT THE ASSAYS ARE NOT CLEARLY REPORTED.
Comment (Economic Factors): ACTUALLY THE PRE-PRODUCTION STRIPPING VOLUME IS 3,800 CUBIC METERS.
Comment (Geology): THE DIMENSIONS OF THE ORE BODY IN THE GEOMETRY DATA SET ARE RELATED ONLY TO THE SCHEELEMITE AREA TUNGSTEN DEPOSIT, AND DO NOT CONSIDER OTHER SMALL TUNGSTEN SHOWINGS OR THE WHOLE IRON MOUNTAIN DEPOSIT.
Comment (Production): ACTUALLY THE IRON MOUNTAIN DEPOSITS WERE DISCOVERED IN 1880, TUNGSTEN IN THE SCHEELEMITE AREA WAS NOT FOUND UNTIL 1941. NO SIGNIFICANT PRODUCTION OF TUNGSTEN WAS RECORDED FOR THE IRON MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT TO DATE.
Comment (Deposit): MIXED DOMAIN IN THE MILS DATA SET MEANS FEDERAL AND STATE DOMAINS. ACTUALLY BERYLLIUM WOULD NOT AFFECT THE MARKETABILITY OF THE WO3 CONCENTRATE, NEITHER AS CREDIT NOR AS PENALTY.
Comment (Geology): FORMATION NAME FOR THE SKARN ROCK MASS AND FOR THE APLITE, RHYOLITE AND GRANITE WAS LEFT BLANK BECAUSE THESE ROCK MASSES ARE NOT GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS.
References
Reference (Deposit): NEW MEXICO. U.S. BUREAU OF MINES RI 4035, 1947, 5 PP.
Reference (Deposit): STORMS, W.R. IRON MOUNTAIN TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS, SIERRA COUNTY,
Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 671, 1980, PP. 1-9.
Reference (Deposit): STAFFORD, B.T. TUNGSTEN. CH. IN MINERAL FACTS AND PROBLEMS.
Reference (Deposit): PP. 410-418.
Reference (Deposit): FAIRVIEW, NEW MEXICO. ECON. GEOL., VOL. 16, 1921,
Reference (Deposit): SMYTHE, D.D. A CONTACT METAMORPHIC IRON-ORE DEPOSIT NEAR
Reference (Deposit): MINERAL RESOURCES BULL. 21, 1946, PP. 167-169.
Reference (Deposit): SOURCES OF NEW MEXICO. NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES AND
Reference (Deposit): ROTHROCK, H.E., C.H. JOHNSON, AND A.D. HAHN. FLUORSPAR RE-
Reference (Deposit): 1932, PP. 138-139.
Reference (Deposit): NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES BULL. 8,
Reference (Deposit): LASKY, S.G. THE ORE DEPOSITS OF SOCORRO COUNTY, NEW MEXICO.
Reference (Deposit): SOURCES BULL. 10, 1934, PP. 116-119.
Reference (Reserve-Resource): JAHNS, R. H. AND J.J. GLASS. BERYLLIUM AND TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS
Reference (Deposit): NEW MEXICO. NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RE-
Reference (Deposit): FIRST PRINTING, 1962 (?), PP. 200.
Reference (Deposit): HARLEY, G.T. THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF SIERRA COUNTY,
Reference (Deposit): DENVER EQUIPMENT COMPANY. MINERAL PROCESSING FLOW SHEETS.
Reference (Deposit): MEXICO. U.S. BUREAU OF MINES RI 5517, 1959, PP. 56-68.
Reference (Deposit): DALE, V.B. AND W.A. MCKINNEY. TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF NEW
Reference (Reserve-Resource): 1944, P. 70.
Reference (Reserve-Resource): TIES, NEW MEXICO. U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 945-C,
Reference (Reserve-Resource): OF THE IRON MOUNTAIN DISTRICT, SIERRA AND SOCORRO COUN-
Reference (Deposit): J0255026. REV. ED. JUNE 1979, 374 PP.
Reference (Deposit): SYSTEM HANDBOOK. STRAAMS ENGINEER., INC. CONTRACT NO.
Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES CAPITAL AND OPERATING COST ESTIMATING
Reference (Deposit): DEPOSIT. ECON. GEOL. VOL. 36, 1941, PP. 748-751.
Reference (Deposit): 1947, 13 PP.
Reference (Deposit): STROCK, L.W. A NEW HELVITE LOCALITY- A POSSIBLE BERYLLIUM
Reference (Deposit): SOCORRO COUNTIES, NEW MEXICO. U.S BUREAU OF MINES RI 4024,
Reference (Deposit): STORMS, W.R. IRON MOUNTAIN BERYLLIUM DEPOSITS, SIERRA AND
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