Yellow Jacket Iron Mine

The Yellow Jacket Iron Mine is a iron mine located in Lincoln county, New Mexico at an elevation of 6,401 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Yellow Jacket Iron Mine
Secondary: Yellow Jacket Mine: Yellow Jacket Group of Claims Patented In 1918
Secondary: Wasp
Secondary: Yellow Jacket
Secondary: Yellow Jacket No.2
Secondary: Olga: Unpatented Claims
Secondary: Crown Point
Secondary: Crown Point No.2
Secondary: Yellow Jacket No.3

Commodity

Primary: Iron

Location

State: New Mexico
County: Lincoln
District: White Oaks District

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.
Administrative Organization: Blm Roswell Resource Area

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Owner Name: Edna Lehman Davis And Adele Lehman
Home Office: Alhambra, Ca.
Years: 1950 -

Owner Name: Victory Mining Co.
Home Office: Carrizozo, N.M.
Years: 1942 -

Production

Year: 1942
Time Period: 1913 To 1942
Description: Cp_Grade: ^58.2% Fe.

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Replacement
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1913
Year Last Production: 1942
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: Sacramento Section

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Skarn Fe

Orebody

Form: IRREGULAR

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Permian

Name: Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene

Name: Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Permian

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Hematite
Ore: Magnetite
Gangue: Siderite
Gangue: Actinolite

Comments

Comment (Location): ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE MAIN WORKINGS ON THE YELLOW JACKET CLAIM. CADASTRAL GRID PROJECTED.

Comment (Production): PRODUCTION YEARS WERE 1913, 1914, 1915, AND 1942. PRODUCTION IN 1913 AND 1914 WAS REPORTED AS 255 RAIL CARS OF ORE ESTIMATED TO CONTAIN 50 TONS OF ORE PER CAR.

Comment (Deposit): DEPOSIT CONSISTS OF THREE PRINCIPAL ORE BODIES RANGING FROM 12 TO 35 FT. THICK, 75 TO 150 FT. LONG, AND MINED DOWN DIP FOR A DISTANCE OF UP TO 125 FT...FOUR PATENTED CLAIMS AND THREE UNPATENTED CLAIMS,MINER AL SURVEY NUMBER 1673, COVERING 142.605 ACRES.

Comment (Workings): WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1949 CONSISTED OF THREE OPEN CUTS, SEVERAL ADITS, AND A CAVED SHAFT.

References

Reference (Deposit): KELLEY, V.C., 1949 UNIV. OF NEW MEXICO PUBLICATIONS IN GEOLOGY, NO. 2, P. 154-156

Reference (Deposit): GRISWOLD, G.B., 1959 NMBMMR BULL 67, P. 97-98

Reference (Deposit): SMITH, C.T., AND BUDDING, A.J. 1959 NMBMMR GEOLOGIC MAP, GM-11

Reference (Deposit): SMITH, C.T., 1964 NMGS GUIDEBOOK 15TH FIELD CONFERENCE, P.92-99

Reference (Deposit): NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

Reference (Production): KELLEY, V.C., 1949, P. 156.

Reference (Deposit): SHERIDAN, M.J., 1947 USBM RI-3988, P. 14-16

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