Bert Hoover Lode No. 1

The Bert Hoover Lode No. 1 is a molybdenum mine located in San Miguel county, New Mexico at an elevation of 8,638 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Bert Hoover Lode No. 1
Secondary: Mine: Santo Nino
Secondary: Romero
Secondary: Hoover
Secondary: Claims: Santo Nino No. 1-10

Commodity

Primary: Molybdenum
Tertiary: Copper
Tertiary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Bismuth

Location

State: New Mexico
County: San Miguel
District: El Porvenir District

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: M. A. Romero, Eulogio Duran, J. L. Lopez, Charles And James Lujan
Home Office: Las Vegas, Nm.
Years: 1946 -

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1914
Year Last Production: 1916
Discovery Year: 1950
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Southern Rocky Mountains

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Form: LINEAR

Structure

Type: R
Description: Hermit Peak Thrust Fault

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Neoproterozoic

Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Neoproterozoic

Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Molybdenite
Ore: Scheelite
Ore: Bismuthinite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Gangue: Malachite
Gangue: Muscovite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Fluorite
Gangue: Orthoclase

Comments

Comment (Location): LOCATION IS ESTIMATED FROM HARLEY'S (1946, P. 56) DESCRIPTION. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979

Comment (Production): SEVERAL HUNDRED POUNDS OF COARSE, HIGH-GRADE MOLYBDENITE ORE WERE SHIPPED IN 1914; 25 TONS OF MOLYBDENITE ORE WERE MINED IN 1916 BUT APPARENTLY NOT SHIPPED.

Comment (Deposit): MOLYBDENITE, CHALCOPYRITE, SCHEELITE AND BISMUTHINITE OCCUR TOGETHER AS SMALL, SCATTERED POCKETS IN A WHITE, COARSE GRAINED PEGMATIC QUARTZ VEIN STRIKING N 60 E. THE VEIN CUTS PINK, COARSE-GRAINED GRANITE (OR QUARTZ MONZONITE AND CONTAINS SOME ORTHOCLASE, MUSCOVITE, AND FLUORITE. ABUNDANT BROWN LIMONITE AND CANARY-YELLOW FERROMOLYBDITE AND SOME MALACHITE AND AZURITE ARE PRESENT AT THE SURFACE.

Comment (Workings): WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 90-FOOT SHAFT AND AN 800-FOOT ADIT (200 FEET BELOW THE SHAFT.).

Comment (Geology): THE PRECAMBRIAN HAS NO FORMAL NAME IN THIS AREA.

Comment (Deposit): Discovery Year: 1900'S

References

Reference (Deposit): SCHILLING, J.H., 1965, NMBMMR BULL 76, P. 43

Reference (Deposit): HARLEY, G.T., 1940, NMBMMR BULL 15, P. 56-57

Reference (Deposit): HORNTON, F.W., 1916, USBM BULL 111, P. 78

Reference (Deposit): BUSH, F.V., 1915, "THE ROMERO MOLYBDENUM MINE", MIN. AND SCI. PRESS, V. 110, P. 354

Reference (Deposit): COOPER, J. R., 1962, BISMUTH OF U.S.: USGS MR - 22

Reference (Deposit): NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

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