Butler Brothers Mine

The Butler Brothers Mine is a vanadium and uranium mine located in Sandoval county, New Mexico at an elevation of 7,598 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Butler Brothers Mine
Secondary: Mine: Butler-Mauldin

Commodity

Primary: Vanadium
Primary: Uranium

Location

State: New Mexico
County: Sandoval
District: La Ventana District

Land Status

Land ownership: National Forest
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

Ownership

Owner Name: R. W. And V. G. Butler, Farmington, Nm

Production

Year: 1959
Time Period: 1954 To 1959
Material type: ORE V
Description: Cp_Grade: ^0.12 Percent V205
Year: 1959
Time Period: 1954 To 1959
Material type: ORE U
Description: Cp_Grade: ^0.63 Percent U308

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1955
Year Last Production: 1959
Discovery Year: 1954
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Colorado Plateaus
Physiographic Section: Navajo Section

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Form: TABULAR

Structure

Type: R
Description: Nacimiento Reverse Fault

Type: L
Description: Open But Steeply Plunging Folds

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Sandstone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Cretaceous

Name: Sandstone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: THE BED OF BLACK PEAT CONTAINS UP TO 1.4 PERCENT URANIUM

Materials

Gangue: Peat

Comments

Comment (Deposit): THE URANIUM OCCURS IN A ONE-FOOT BED OF BLACK PEAT AT THE BASE OF THE DAKOTA SANDSTONE. THE DAKOTA HERE IS WARPED INTO OPEN BUT STEEPLY PLUNGING FOLDS BECAUSE OF THE DRAG CAUSED BY THE NACIMIENTO REVERSE FAULT LOCATED ONE MILE TO THE EAST.

Comment (Workings): WORKINGS CONSIST OF AN OPEN CUT.

Comment (Location): LOCATION IS ESTIMATED FROM DIRECTIONS GIVEN BY ANDERSON (1980). ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

References

Reference (Production): MCLEMORE, V.T., 1983, NMBMMR OFR-183, APPENDIX 1

Reference (Deposit): NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

Reference (Deposit): MCLEMORE, V.T., 1983 NMBMMR OFR-183, APPENDIX 1

Reference (Deposit): ANDERSON, O.J., 1980, NMBMMR OFR-148

Reference (Deposit): HILPERT, L.S., 1969, USGS PP 603, P. 49

Reference (Deposit): ELSTON, W.E., 1967, NMBMMR BULL 81, P. 24

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