The Betty Prospect is a iron mine located in Lincoln county, New Mexico.
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Betty Prospect MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Betty Prospect
Commodity
Primary: Iron
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Lincoln
District: Tecolote Iron
Land Status
Administrative Organization: Blm Roswell Resource Area
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Deposit Type: Replacement
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
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: LENS
Structure
Type: R
Description: Rio Grande Rift
Type: L
Description: Lincoln County Porphyry Belt
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Permian
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Magnetite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): A SMALL LENS OF MAGNETITE IS EXPOSED. THE ORE DIPS STEEPLY WEST WITH MONZONITE FORMING THE HANGING WALL AND LIMESTONE THE FOOTWALL.
Comment (Location): BLM ROSWELL RESOURCE AREAAPPROXIMATE LOCATION
Comment (Workings): IN 1943, USBM EXPLORED THE PROPERTY BY SEVERAL TRENCES AND PITS, BUT THERE IS NO RECORD OF PRODUCTION.
Comment (Geology): MAGNETITE IS PRESENT IN SMALL LENSES.
Comment (Deposit): VERY SMALL DEPOSIT.
References
Reference (Deposit): GRISWOLD, G.B., 1959, NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 67, 117 P. KELLEY, V.C., 1949, UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS, NO. 2, 246 P
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