Cleveland Mine

The Cleveland Mine is a zinc mine located in Grant county, New Mexico at an elevation of 7,201 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Cleveland Mine
Secondary: Cleveland Adit
Secondary: Pershing Adit: Claim Patented In 1892
Secondary: Cleveland
Secondary: Claims of the Cleveland Group Patented In 1910
Secondary: Isabella Grant
Secondary: Cleveland Extension North
Secondary: Copper Extension East
Secondary: Forrest Queen
Secondary: Copper Extension
Secondary: Includes Atlas No. 1 and Atlas No. 2

Commodity

Primary: Zinc
Secondary: Lead
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Gold

Location

State: New Mexico
County: Grant
District: Pinos Altos 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.

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Type: Surface/Underground

Ownership

Owner Name: Empire Zinc Co. ; G.H. Utter
Home Office: New York, N.Y.
Years: 1889 - 1949

Owner Name: D. B. White
Home Office: Silver City, N.M.
Years: 1949 -

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Replacement
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1895
Year Last Production: 1949
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: M

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Mexican Highland

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Skarn Zn-Pb

Orebody

Form: IRREGULAR, TABULAR

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

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

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

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Galena
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Marmatite
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Rhodochrosite
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Dolomite

Comments

Comment (Deposit): SIX PATENTED CLAIMS MINERAL SURVEY NUMBERS 831 AND 1353 COVERING 119.485 ACRES. IN A ZONE OF COMPLEX NNE-NE FAULTING. PROPERTY IN 1922 LARGER, WITH 18 PATENTED CLAIMS COVERING 363 ACRES.

Comment (Workings): WORKINGS CONSIST OF AT LEAST 6000 FT. OF DRIFTS, CROSSCUTS AND STOPES WITH ACCESS BY TWO ADITS AND SEVERAL SHALLOW SHAFTS, ALSO PITS AND TRENCHES.

Comment (Location): ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE PORTAL OF THE CLEVELAND ADIT IN THE EXTREME NORTHWEST CORNER OF SECTION ONE.

Comment (Production): FROM 1915-1947, 121,000 METRIC TONS OF SULFIDE ORE WAS PRODUCED THAT CONTAINED 9-15% ZN, 1-2% PB, 0.2-1% CU, AND 68-137 G/T AG. MOST PRODUCTION FROM 1915 TO 1919. TAILINGS FROM CLEVELAND MILL RETREATED 1940 TO 1941 AT PERU MINING CO. MILL, DEMING, NM. IN 1905 SOME 200 TO 300 ST ORE MINED FROM SURFACE WORKINGS SENT TO SILVER CITY SMELTER.

Comment (Development): PRIOR TO 1913 SHALLOW OXIDE OR WAS MINED. FROM 1915-1947 SULFIDE ORE WAS MINED. ; ECON.COM: MAGNETIC SEPARATION MILL OPERATED 1915-1919 BY EMPIRE ZINC CO. ; MILL.CAP : 125 ST/DAY

Comment (Deposit): RECORD # D011695 BY CLINT E. SEANOR HAS BEEN INCORPORATED INTO THIS RECORD. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

References

Reference (Deposit): HERNON, R.M., COMPILER, 1949, WEST TEXAS GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY AND SOUTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO SECTION, AIME GUIDEBOOK, FIELD TRIP 3, P. 39-40.

Reference (Deposit): DMEA 1549.

Reference (Production): SOULE, J.H., 1948, U.S. BUREAU OF MINES REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 4237, P. 5.

Reference (Deposit): CUNNINGHAM, J.E., 1974 NMBMMR GEOLOGIC MAP, GM-30

Reference (Deposit): NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

Reference (Deposit): SOULE, J.H., 1948 USBM RI-4237, 5 PAGES

Reference (Deposit): PAIGE, S., 1911 USGS BULL 470, P. 122-125

Reference (Deposit): LINDGREN, W., GRATON, L.C., AND GORDON, C.H., 1910 USGS PP 68, P. 300-301

Reference (Deposit): PAIGE, S., 1916 USGS GEOLOGIC ATLAS OF U.S., FOLIO 199

Reference (Deposit): LASKY, S.G., AND WOOTTON, T.P., 1933 NMBMMR BULL 7, P. 58-59

Reference (Deposit): ANDERSON, E.C., 1957 NMBMMR BULL 39, P. 70-71

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