Taylor Creek Placer - Lode

The Taylor Creek Placer - Lode is a mine located in Catron county, New Mexico at an elevation of 6,719 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

Name: Taylor Creek Placer - Lode  

State:  New Mexico

County:  Catron

Elevation: 6,719 Feet (2,048 Meters)

Commodity:

Lat, Long: 33.3631, -108.06310

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Taylor Creek Placer - Lode MRDS details

Site Name

Primary: Taylor Creek Placer - Lode
Secondary: Taylor Creek Placer { Lode


Commodity

Tertiary: Iron
Tertiary: Tin


Location

State: New Mexico
County: Catron
District: Taylor Creek


Land Status

Land ownership: National Forest
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


Workings

Not available


Ownership

Owner Name: C. E Dawson Of Black Springs
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: New Mexico
Info Year: 1975


Production

Not available


Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Year First Production: 1939
Discovery Year: 1918
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N


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: Kaolinite
Unknown: Hematite
Unknown: Cassiterite


Comments

Comment (Deposit): REFERENCE TO RECORD 010: HEMATITE IS A DELETERIOUS MINERAL REFERENCE TO RECORD 050: AREA HAD BEEN INVESIGATED BY U.S. G SURVEY AND BUREAU OF MINES STAFF FOR ITS MINERAL POTENTIAL EARLY 1940S. REFERENCE TO RECORD 070: CASSITERITE FOUND AS SMALL, IRREGUL STRINGERS IN FRACTURES OF KAOLINIZED RHYOLITE PORPHYRY. CASSITERITE ALSO FOUND AS PLACER DEPOSIT ADJACENT TO AND B MINERALIZED ZONE IN TAYLOR CREEK GRAVEL BEDS REFERENCE TO RECORD 080: DIMENSIONS OF DEPOSIT IN THIS RECOR (DEPOSIT CHARACTERISTICS PERTAIN TO ALTERED ZONE WHICH CO MANY SMALL, BUT WIDELY DISPERSED CASSITERITE STRINGERS. CASSITERITE STRINGERS ALTHOUGH THEY ARE HIGH GRADE ARE TOO S AND TOO DISPERSED TO BE CONSIDERED AS AN ECONOMIC RESOURSE GRAVEL DEPOSITS CONTAINING CASSITERITE ARE OF LIMITED EXTE


References

Reference (Deposit): DEPOSITS, NEW MEXICO: U. S. BUREAU OF MINES R. I. 4068, 60

Reference (Deposit): VOLIN, M. E., ET. AL., 1947, CATRON AND SIERRA COUNTIES TIN

Reference (Deposit): GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 725, PP. 347-59.

Reference (Deposit): N. 3, PP. 123, 130.

Reference (Deposit): HILL, J. M., 1921, THE TAYLOR CREEK TIN DEPOSITS, NEW MEXICO

Reference (Deposit): HARRINGTON, E. R., 1943, TIN IN NEW MEXICO: MINES MAGAZINE,

Reference (Deposit): COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MINES BULL. 10, 2

Reference (Deposit): 355-70.

Reference (Deposit): HARLEY, GEORGE T., 1934, THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF SIE

Reference (Deposit): SIERRA COUNTIES, NEW MEXICO: U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 922-

Reference (Deposit): FRIES, CARL, 1940, TIN DEPOSITS OF THE BLACK RANGE, CATRON A


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