The Spring Gold Stain Mine is a gold mine located in Lincoln county, New Mexico.
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Mine Info
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Spring Gold Stain Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Spring Gold Stain Mine
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Arsenic
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Lincoln
District: Jicarilla
Land Status
Administrative Organization: Blm Roswell Resource Area
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: W. A. Hubbard
Years: 1959 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
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: Alkaline Au-Te (Au-Ag-Te veins)
Orebody
Form: LODE
Structure
Type: R
Description: Rio Grande Rift
Type: L
Description: Lincoln County Porphyry Belt
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Bleaching And Kaolinization
Rocks
Name: Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Ore: Pyrite
Comments
Comment (Location): BLM ROSWELL RESOURCE AREAABOUT .25 MI NW OF APEX MINE.
Comment (Deposit): ABOUT .25 MI NW OF APEX MINE
Comment (Reserve-Resource): ASSAY OF A GRAB SAMPLE FROM THE DUMP YIELDED ONLY A TRACE OF GOLD.
Comment (Workings): SEVERAL SHAFTS AND AN ADIT WERE DUG. IN 1959, THE MINE DUMPS WERE THE LARGEST IN THE DISTRICT, INDICATING CONSIDERABLE UNDERGROUND DEVELOPMENT.
Comment (Geology): GRISWOLD (1959) NOTED THAT THE DUMP WAS FAIRLY MINERALIZED BY PYRITE AND ARSENOPYRITE.
References
Reference (Deposit): SEGERSTROM, KENNETH, AND RYBERG, G.E., 1974, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1308. GRISWOLD, G.B., 1959, NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 67, 117 P
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