The Eighty Mountain Area is a iron mine located in Grant county, New Mexico.
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Eighty Mountain Area MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Eighty Mountain Area
Commodity
Primary: Iron
Tertiary: Beryllium
Tertiary: Tungsten
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Grant
District: Central Mining Region Area
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
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
Not available
Structure
Type: L
Description: Eighty Mountain Stock
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Hematitic
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Scheelite
Ore: Hematite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): HEMATITIC ALTERATION ALONG CONTACT ZONE (FAULT?) BETWEEN PENNSYLVANIAN OSWALDO FORMATION AND CRETACEOUS BEARTOOTH QUARTZITE. ANOMALOUS BE AND W IN STREAM SEDIMENTS SUGGESTS SOME SKARN-TYPE MINERALIZATION POSSIBLY RELATED TO TERTIARY EIGHTY MOUNTAIN STOCK.
Comment (Workings): NUMEROUS SHALLOW SHAFTS AND PITS
References
Reference (Deposit): WATTS, K. C., U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNPUBLISHED DATA, 1977-1979.
Reference (Deposit): FINNELL, T. L., U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNPUBLISHED DATA, 1976-1980.
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