Century Mine

The Century Mine is a lead mine located in Hidalgo county, New Mexico at an elevation of 4,800 feet.

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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.

Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Century Mine
Secondary: Eighty-Five Group

Commodity

Primary: Lead
Secondary: Tungsten

Location

State: New Mexico
County: Hidalgo
District: Lordsburg District: Virginia Subdistrict

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

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Ownership

Not available

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

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

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Not available

Structure

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Alterations

Not available

Rocks

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

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Wulfenite
Gangue: Limonite

Comments

Comment (Location): LOCATION IS SHOWN ON USGS MISC. GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-1151. IN 1910 THE MINE WAS REPORTED TO BE LOCATED WEST OF THE EIGHTY-FIVE MINE WHICH WOULD PLACE IT ON THE NINETY-NINE CLAIM OF THE PATENTED EIGHTY-FIVE GROUP OF CLAIMS.

Comment (Deposit): ON SHORT ENE-TRENDING VEINS BETWEEN EMERALD AND ATWOOD VEINS AT CONTACT OF GRANODIORITE AND ANDESITE.

Comment (Deposit): PRODUCTION BEFORE 1905, UNKNOWN AMOUNT ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

References

Reference (Deposit): LINDGREN, W., GRATON, L. C., AND GORDON, C. H., 1910, THE ORE DEPOSITS OF NEW MEXICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 68, P 335

Reference (Deposit): THORMAN, C.H., AND DREWES, H., 1978 USGS MISC. GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS MAP, I-1151

Reference (Deposit): LASKY, S.G., 1938 USGS BULL 885, PLATE 14

Reference (Deposit): CLARK, K.F., 1970 NMGS GUIDEBOOK 21ST FIELD CONFERENCE, P. 107-113

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