Nakaye Mine

The Nakaye Mine is a fluorine-fluorite mine located in Sierra county, New Mexico at an elevation of 4,800 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Nakaye Mine
Secondary: Alamo Mine: Nakaye Group 1918
Secondary: Alamo Group 1930
Secondary: Principal Claims: Nakaye No 1
Secondary: Nakaye No 2
Secondary: Nakaye No 3
Secondary: Nakaye No 4
Secondary: Nakaye No 7
Secondary: Nakaye No 9
Secondary: Alamo No 1
Secondary: Alamo No 2
Secondary: Alamo No 3
Secondary: Cuesta Mala
Secondary: Nakaye No 5

Commodity

Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Secondary: Barium-Barite
Secondary: Manganese

Location

State: New Mexico
County: Sierra
District: Sierra Caballos District

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

Not available

Ownership

Owner Name: Luchini, B. W.
Years: 1978 -

Owner Name: Blanchard Hanson And B. A. Luchini
Years: 1952 -

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1920
Year Last Production: 1952
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: PINCH AND SWELL

Structure

Type: L
Description: East-West Trending Nakaye Fault And Other Parallel Faults Cut The Nakaye Mountain Horst Block. Smaller Cross Faults Trend From Northwest To Northeast. Sizable Bodies Of Jasperoid, Both Discordant And Concordant, Occur Within The Nakaye Formation.

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Silicification

Rocks

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

Name: Latite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pennsylvanian

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Gangue: Calcite
Unknown: Barite

Comments

Comment (Reserve-Resource): RESERVE ESTIMATE IS PROBABLE GEOLOGIC RESERVES.

Comment (Deposit): PRINCIPAL DEPOSITS ARE CONCORDANT BEDDED REPLACEMENTS OF LIMESTONE OF RED HOUSE FORMATION (AT LEAST 3 INTERVALS) AND SHALE RANGING FROM NEARLY ZERO TO 5 FT IN THICKNESS. STRATIFORM REPLACEMENT FLUORSPAR OCCURS IN AT LEAST THREE STRATIGRAPHIC INTERVALS. FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS ALSO OCCUR IN JASPEROID VEINS AND PODS ALONG FAULTS AND SHEAR ZONES. 11 UNPATENTED CLAIMS COVERING APPROXIMATELY 200 ACRES.

Comment (Workings): WORKING CONSIST OF THREE INACCESSIBLE SHAFTS, FIVE ADITS LESS THAN 100 FT IN LENGTH, TWO OPEN CUTS ALONG THE NAKAYE FAULT AND NUMEROUS SHALLOW PITS.

Comment (Geology): FOR GENERAL GEOLOGY SEE SIERRA CABALLOS DISTRICT

Comment (Commodity): THE FLUORITE IS SUGARY TO COARSELY CRYSTALLINE AND PALE GREEN, BROWN, DARK BLUE, OR WHITE.

Comment (Production): FIGURE IS TOTAL PRODUCTION ESTIMATED IN 1978.

Comment (Production): TOTAL PRODUCTION ESTIMATED AT ABOUT $20,000,000. DREDGE PRODUCTION, 1916-1942, TOTALED 123,911 TOZ AU AND 13,066 TOZ AG

Comment (Deposit): SEPARATE RECORDS FOR PRARIE DIGGINGS,MARYSVILLE PLACERS, CANYON CITY PLACERS, ST. MARIE

Comment (Workings): INCLUDED PLACERING ALONG JOHN DAY RIVER FROM THE MOUTH OF DEAN CK TO MOUNT VERNON & IN CANYON CK. OLDER BENCH GRAVELS ALONG THE N FLANK OF THE STRAWBERRY MTNS FROM PRARIE DIGGINGS TO CANYON CITY WERE LARGRLY HYDRAULIC.

References

Reference (Deposit): JOHNSTON, W.D., 1928 NMBMMR BULL 4, P50

Reference (Deposit): TALMAGE, S.B. AND, WOOTTON, T.P., 1937 NMBMMR BULL 12, P79

Reference (Deposit): WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966 USBM IC8307, P112

Reference (Deposit): MCANULTY, W.N., 1978 NMBMMR MEMOIR 34, P44

Reference (Production): MCANULTY, 1978, P. 43, P. 46.

Reference (Reserve-Resource): MCANULTY, 1978.

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