Scheelemite

The Scheelemite is a tungsten mine located in Sierra county, New Mexico at an elevation of 7,874 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Scheelemite
Secondary: Scheelemite Area

Commodity

Primary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Beryllium
Tertiary: Molybdenum

Location

State: New Mexico
County: Sierra
District: Iron Mountain District

Land Status

Land ownership: Mixed
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

Type: Located Claim
Type: Patented

Workings

Type: Surface

Ownership

Owner Name: T. C. Parker, Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico.
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: New Mexico
Info Year: 1982

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
Mining Method: Open Pit
Milling Method: Gravity
Discovery Year: 1941
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y

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

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Not available

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Unknown: Powellite
Unknown: Scheelite
Unknown: Quartz
Unknown: Magnetite
Unknown: Garnet
Unknown: Fluorite
Unknown: Calcite

Comments

Comment (Reserve-Resource): THE DATA IN THE QUANTITY MATRIX 1 WAS DERIVED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES OF INFORMATION: 1- U.S. BUREAU OF MINES RI 4035, 2- U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 945-C, AND 3- PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS WITH R.H. JAHNS, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, FEB. 1982 IN ADDITION TO THE LITTLE BERYLLIUM, THE ORE IS KNOWN TO CONTAIN MOLYBDENUM, BUT THE MOLYBDENUM PERCENT IS NOT SUFFICIENTLY DOCUMENTED. Q9C4 = Q1C1.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): THE ORE IS KNOWN TO CONTAIN VERY LITTLE BERYLLIUM AND SOME MOLYBDENUM, BUT THE ASSAYS ARE NOT CLEARLY REPORTED.

Comment (Economic Factors): ACTUALLY THE PRE-PRODUCTION STRIPPING VOLUME IS 3,800 CUBIC METERS.

Comment (Geology): THE DIMENSIONS OF THE ORE BODY IN THE GEOMETRY DATA SET ARE RELATED ONLY TO THE SCHEELEMITE AREA TUNGSTEN DEPOSIT, AND DO NOT CONSIDER OTHER SMALL TUNGSTEN SHOWINGS OR THE WHOLE IRON MOUNTAIN DEPOSIT.

Comment (Production): ACTUALLY THE IRON MOUNTAIN DEPOSITS WERE DISCOVERED IN 1880, TUNGSTEN IN THE SCHEELEMITE AREA WAS NOT FOUND UNTIL 1941. NO SIGNIFICANT PRODUCTION OF TUNGSTEN WAS RECORDED FOR THE IRON MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT TO DATE.

Comment (Deposit): MIXED DOMAIN IN THE MILS DATA SET MEANS FEDERAL AND STATE DOMAINS. ACTUALLY BERYLLIUM WOULD NOT AFFECT THE MARKETABILITY OF THE WO3 CONCENTRATE, NEITHER AS CREDIT NOR AS PENALTY.

Comment (Geology): FORMATION NAME FOR THE SKARN ROCK MASS AND FOR THE APLITE, RHYOLITE AND GRANITE WAS LEFT BLANK BECAUSE THESE ROCK MASSES ARE NOT GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS.

References

Reference (Deposit): NEW MEXICO. U.S. BUREAU OF MINES RI 4035, 1947, 5 PP.

Reference (Deposit): STORMS, W.R. IRON MOUNTAIN TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS, SIERRA COUNTY,

Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 671, 1980, PP. 1-9.

Reference (Deposit): STAFFORD, B.T. TUNGSTEN. CH. IN MINERAL FACTS AND PROBLEMS.

Reference (Deposit): PP. 410-418.

Reference (Deposit): FAIRVIEW, NEW MEXICO. ECON. GEOL., VOL. 16, 1921,

Reference (Deposit): SMYTHE, D.D. A CONTACT METAMORPHIC IRON-ORE DEPOSIT NEAR

Reference (Deposit): MINERAL RESOURCES BULL. 21, 1946, PP. 167-169.

Reference (Deposit): SOURCES OF NEW MEXICO. NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES AND

Reference (Deposit): ROTHROCK, H.E., C.H. JOHNSON, AND A.D. HAHN. FLUORSPAR RE-

Reference (Deposit): 1932, PP. 138-139.

Reference (Deposit): NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES BULL. 8,

Reference (Deposit): LASKY, S.G. THE ORE DEPOSITS OF SOCORRO COUNTY, NEW MEXICO.

Reference (Deposit): SOURCES BULL. 10, 1934, PP. 116-119.

Reference (Reserve-Resource): JAHNS, R. H. AND J.J. GLASS. BERYLLIUM AND TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS

Reference (Deposit): NEW MEXICO. NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RE-

Reference (Deposit): FIRST PRINTING, 1962 (?), PP. 200.

Reference (Deposit): HARLEY, G.T. THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF SIERRA COUNTY,

Reference (Deposit): DENVER EQUIPMENT COMPANY. MINERAL PROCESSING FLOW SHEETS.

Reference (Deposit): MEXICO. U.S. BUREAU OF MINES RI 5517, 1959, PP. 56-68.

Reference (Deposit): DALE, V.B. AND W.A. MCKINNEY. TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF NEW

Reference (Reserve-Resource): 1944, P. 70.

Reference (Reserve-Resource): TIES, NEW MEXICO. U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 945-C,

Reference (Reserve-Resource): OF THE IRON MOUNTAIN DISTRICT, SIERRA AND SOCORRO COUN-

Reference (Deposit): J0255026. REV. ED. JUNE 1979, 374 PP.

Reference (Deposit): SYSTEM HANDBOOK. STRAAMS ENGINEER., INC. CONTRACT NO.

Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES CAPITAL AND OPERATING COST ESTIMATING

Reference (Deposit): DEPOSIT. ECON. GEOL. VOL. 36, 1941, PP. 748-751.

Reference (Deposit): 1947, 13 PP.

Reference (Deposit): STROCK, L.W. A NEW HELVITE LOCALITY- A POSSIBLE BERYLLIUM

Reference (Deposit): SOCORRO COUNTIES, NEW MEXICO. U.S BUREAU OF MINES RI 4024,

Reference (Deposit): STORMS, W.R. IRON MOUNTAIN BERYLLIUM DEPOSITS, SIERRA AND

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