Rincon Manganese Deposits

The Rincon Manganese Deposits is a manganese mine located in Dona Ana county, New Mexico at an elevation of 4,301 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Rincon Manganese Deposits
Secondary: Rincon Mine
Secondary: Morgan Mine: Claims
Secondary: Rincon Nos. 1 To 5 Claims
Secondary: Rincon Placer Claims
Secondary: Lucky Strike Claims

Commodity

Primary: Manganese

Location

State: New Mexico
County: Dona Ana
District: Rincon District: Rincon Hills Area

Land Status

Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
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: Surface/Underground

Ownership

Owner Name: Central Mining Co.
Home Office: Santa Fe, N.M.
Years: 1958 -

Owner Name: Alamo Mining And Exploration Co.
Home Office: Alamogordo, N.M.
Years: 1958 -

Production

Year: 1958
Time Period: 1918 To 1958

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1918
Year Last Production: 1958
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: Sandstone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pliocene

Name: Sandstone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Pliocene

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Psilomelane
Ore: Pyrolusite
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Quartz

Comments

Comment (Production): PLACER DEPOSITS ACCOUNT FOR ABOUT 400 TONS OF THE TOTAL ORE PRODUCED.

Comment (Location): ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE RINCON MINE AS SHOWN ON SHEET 1 OF NMBMMR BULL 101.

Comment (Deposit): MANGANESE OCCURS IN EIGHT OR MORE STEEPLY DIPPING FISSURES OR FRACTURES WHICH RANGE IN STRIKE FROM NORTH TO N 60 W. THE MAIN FISSURE, WHICH PRODUCED MOST OF THE ORE, STRIKES N 60 W. THE ORE SHOOTS RANGED FROM 1 FT. TO 5 FT. IN WIDTH AND FROM A FEW FEET TO 100 FT. IN LENGTH. FIVE UNPATENTED CLAIMS WERE LOCATED IN 1952 AND THREE PLACER CLAIMS, MINERAL SURVEY NUMBERS 1788 AND 1789, WERE PATENTED IN 1919.

Comment (Workings): WORKINGS AT THE MAIN VEIN WERE REPORTED IN 1961 TO CONSIST OF TWO SHAFTS, FIVE OPENCUTS AND TWO ADITS.

Comment (Geology): HAYNER RANCH FM. OCCURS IN THE LOWER PART OF THE SANTA FE GROUP.

References

Reference (Deposit): WELLS, E.H., 1918 NMBMMR BULL 2, P. 35-38

Reference (Deposit): DUNHAM, K.C., 1935 NMBMMR BULL 11, P. 249-250

Reference (Deposit): FARNHAM, L.L., 1961 USBM IC-8030, P. 11-13

Reference (Deposit): SEAGER, W.R., AND HAWLEY, J.W., 1973 NMBMMR BULL 101, P. 30, SHEET 1

Reference (Deposit): NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

Reference (Production): FARNHAM, L.L., 1961, P. 11-12

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