Georgetown Mines

The Georgetown Mines is a silver mine located in Grant county, New Mexico.

About the MRDS Data:

All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.

Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Georgetown Mines
Secondary: Includes: Naiad Queen
Secondary: Commercial Cramer
Secondary: Macgregor
Secondary: Mcnulty
Secondary: And Satisfaction.

Commodity

Primary: Silver
Secondary: Lead

Location

State: New Mexico
County: Grant
District: Georgetown District, Mimbres District

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Type: Underground

Ownership

Owner Name: Mimbres Mining Co.

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1873
Year Last Production: 1893
Discovery Year: 1866
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

Model Name: Polymetallic replacement

Orebody

Form: IRREGULAR

Structure

Type: R
Description: General Dip Of Sedimentary Beds Is 10-20w Of South Edge Of An Anticline

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Silicification, Oxidation

Rocks

Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Silurian

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

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Cerargyrite
Ore: Argentite
Ore: Pyrargyrite
Ore: Silver
Ore: Bromyrite
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Quartz

Comments

Comment (Production): PRODUCTION VALUED AT $3.5 MILLION IN AG

Comment (Development): DISCOVERED IN 1866, WITH MAJOR PRODUCTION BETWEEN 1873-1893.

Comment (Geology): SOME DIKES SEEM TO FOLLOW FAULT PLANES, DIKES CUT THROUGH ALL SEDIMENTARY UNITS.

Comment (Workings): WORKINGS GENERALLY LESS THAN 60 M. DEEP; AT NAIAD QUEEN WORKINGS GO TO A DEPTH OF 180 M.

Comment (Deposit): IRREGULAR OXIDIZED BODIES IN FUSSELMAN DOLOMITE, SOME LOCALIZED NEAR CONTACTS WITH GRANODIORITE PORPHYRY DIKES.

Comment (Deposit): ORE BODIES IN ORDOVICIAN LIMESTONE, WHICH CONTAINS MANY NARROW VUGS COMMONLY LINED WITH CALCITE CRYSTALS AND SOME LARGER ONES WITH STALACTITES AND STALAGMITES. DIKES PROBABLY DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE INTRUSION AT SANTA RITA AND HANOVER. THIS RECORD INCLUDES DATA FROM RECORD W006781 BY SUE A. BILBEY WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

References

Reference (Deposit): LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, GRATON, L. C., AND GORDON, C. H., 1910, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 68, P. 318-319.

Reference (Deposit): HERNON, R. M., COMPILER, 1949, WEST TEXAS GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY AND SOUTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO SECTION, AIME GUIDEBOOK, FIELD TRIP 3, P. 38.

Reference (Deposit): ANDERSON, E. C., 1957, NMBMMR BULL. 39, P. 67.

Reference (Deposit): LASKY, S. G., AND WOOTTEN, T. P., 1933, NMBMMR BULL. 7, P. 56-57.

Reference (Deposit): HEDLUND, D. C., UNPUBLISHED FIELD MAP.

Reference (Deposit): USGS AND OTHERS, 1965, MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES OF NEW MEXICO, NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 87, P. 139-149.

Reference (Deposit): 1905 COMPILE L.C. GRATON

Reference (Deposit): 1910 COMPILE LINDGREN

Reference (Deposit): 1959 COMPILE NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MINES

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