The Major Prospect is a iron mine located in Lincoln county, New Mexico.
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Major Prospect MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Major Prospect
Secondary: Part of Griswold's 1959 Pine Lodge Deposits With Red Wing 3 and 4
Secondary: Ajax
Secondary: And Oslo Claims.
Commodity
Primary: Iron
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Lincoln
District: Capitan Mountains
Land Status
Administrative Organization: Blm Roswell Resource Area
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Unknown
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Sacramento Section
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Skarn Fe
Orebody
Form: REPLACEMENT
Structure
Type: R
Description: Rio Grande Rift
Type: L
Description: Capitan Laccolith
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Limestone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Permian
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Magnetite
Unknown: Actinolite
Unknown: Tremolite
Unknown: Chlorite
Comments
Comment (Location): BLM ROSWELL RESOURCE AREAAPPROXIMATE LOCATION
Comment (Deposit): THE DEPOSITS ARE LOCATED ALONG THE CONTACT BETWEEN THE IGNEOUS AND SEDIMENTARY ROCKS.
Comment (Workings): DEPOSITS WERE DEVELOPED BY SEVERAL SHALLOW PITS AND TWO SHORT ADITS.
Comment (Deposit): RESOURCES: 20,000 FE MATERIAL IN 1944 FOR MAJOR, RED WING, AJAX, AND OSLO.SEVERAL EXPOSURES RANGED FROM 59.3 TO 63.7% FE. MAJOR DEPOSIT LIES A SHORT DISTANCE WEST OF AJAX. THE DEPOSIT IS OPENED BY A TUNNEL 125 FT LONG.
References
Reference (Deposit): KELLEY, V.C., 1949, UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS, NO. 2, 246 P
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