The Taylor Creek Placer - Lode is a mine located in Catron county, New Mexico at an elevation of 6,719 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 6,719 Feet (2,048 Meters)
Commodity:
Lat, Long: 33.3631, -108.06310
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Taylor Creek Placer - Lode MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Taylor Creek Placer - Lode
Secondary: Taylor Creek Placer { Lode
Commodity
Tertiary: Iron
Tertiary: Tin
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Catron
District: Taylor Creek
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
Type: Located Claim
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: C. E Dawson Of Black Springs
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: New Mexico
Info Year: 1975
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Year First Production: 1939
Discovery Year: 1918
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
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: Kaolinite
Unknown: Hematite
Unknown: Cassiterite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): REFERENCE TO RECORD 010: HEMATITE IS A DELETERIOUS MINERAL REFERENCE TO RECORD 050: AREA HAD BEEN INVESIGATED BY U.S. G SURVEY AND BUREAU OF MINES STAFF FOR ITS MINERAL POTENTIAL EARLY 1940S. REFERENCE TO RECORD 070: CASSITERITE FOUND AS SMALL, IRREGUL STRINGERS IN FRACTURES OF KAOLINIZED RHYOLITE PORPHYRY. CASSITERITE ALSO FOUND AS PLACER DEPOSIT ADJACENT TO AND B MINERALIZED ZONE IN TAYLOR CREEK GRAVEL BEDS REFERENCE TO RECORD 080: DIMENSIONS OF DEPOSIT IN THIS RECOR (DEPOSIT CHARACTERISTICS PERTAIN TO ALTERED ZONE WHICH CO MANY SMALL, BUT WIDELY DISPERSED CASSITERITE STRINGERS. CASSITERITE STRINGERS ALTHOUGH THEY ARE HIGH GRADE ARE TOO S AND TOO DISPERSED TO BE CONSIDERED AS AN ECONOMIC RESOURSE GRAVEL DEPOSITS CONTAINING CASSITERITE ARE OF LIMITED EXTE
References
Reference (Deposit): DEPOSITS, NEW MEXICO: U. S. BUREAU OF MINES R. I. 4068, 60
Reference (Deposit): VOLIN, M. E., ET. AL., 1947, CATRON AND SIERRA COUNTIES TIN
Reference (Deposit): GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 725, PP. 347-59.
Reference (Deposit): N. 3, PP. 123, 130.
Reference (Deposit): HILL, J. M., 1921, THE TAYLOR CREEK TIN DEPOSITS, NEW MEXICO
Reference (Deposit): HARRINGTON, E. R., 1943, TIN IN NEW MEXICO: MINES MAGAZINE,
Reference (Deposit): COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MINES BULL. 10, 2
Reference (Deposit): 355-70.
Reference (Deposit): HARLEY, GEORGE T., 1934, THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF SIE
Reference (Deposit): SIERRA COUNTIES, NEW MEXICO: U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 922-
Reference (Deposit): FRIES, CARL, 1940, TIN DEPOSITS OF THE BLACK RANGE, CATRON A
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