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Limestone from
Desdemona Mine, Cookes Peak Mining District, Luna County, New Mexico, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Type:Limestone
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Limestone data
Locality Data:Click here to view Desdemona Mine, Cookes Peak Mining District, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1335057
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1335057:0
GUID (UUID V4):49d79052-b6d7-4c06-bee1-8461fef2a9da
Nearest other occurrences of Limestone
2.6km (1.6 miles) Lookout Prospect, José Mining District, Cookes Peak Mining District, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
7.0km (4.3 miles) White Eagle Mine, Northern Cooks Range Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
15.0km (9.3 miles) Goat Ridge prospect, Fluorite Ridge Mining District, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
17.6km (10.9 miles) Hilltop Prospect 1966, Fluorite Ridge Mining District, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
23.5km (14.6 miles) Norinco, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
23.8km (14.8 miles) Good Luck Claim, Lake Valley Mining District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
32.1km (19.9 miles) Bi-Metallic Mine, Tierra Blanca Mining District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
32.2km (20.0 miles) Royal John Mine (Grand Central Mine), Carpenter Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
33.8km (21.0 miles) Copper Rose Mine, San Lorenzo, Georgetown Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
34.2km (21.2 miles) Big Jap Mine, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COOKES PEAK Mining District Luna County New Mexico PHILIP SIMMONS 11816 Harrington Road SE Albuquerque...Albuquerque, New Mexico 87123 philsim22@gmail.com Figure 1. A view of Cookes Peak from the north at the campsite...campsite near the Surprise mine showing the typical terrain and vegetation of the upper slopes. The cholla... T HE COOKES PEAK MOUNTAIN RANGE has been part of a long history of silver-lead-zinc mining in southern...southern New Mexico, but it is best known within the collector community for producing many beautiful specimens
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
New Mexico FLUORITE A Statewide Survey PHILIP SIMMONS 11816 Harrington Road SE Albuquerque, New Mexico...Mexico 87123 philsim22@gmail.com Figure 1. Fluorite, 8.7 × 6.2 cm, Doublestrike prospects, Bound Ranch...Ranch district, Grant County. Collected by Brian Huntsman, Ray DeMark specimen. 400 ROCKS & MINERALS...Fluorite, 14.1 × 10.6 cm, Foster mine, Gila fluorspar district, Grant County. Collected by Jay Rosenbauer...Rosenbauer in the early 2000s, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR) Mineral Museum specimen
Report (issue)
Smithsonite slice and egg, 5.8 and 2.7 cm tall Masua Mine, Carbonia-lglesias, Sardinia, Italy Cal and Kerith...wide 400 Foot Level, Kelly Mine, Magdalena District Socorro County, New Mexico Steve Neely collection (ex...978-0-9790998-6-1 Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado, USA Design and Layout Gloria Staebler Gunther Neumeier...Lithographie, LLC P.O. Box 11613 • Denver, C O 80211 • USA Phone 1.303.495.5521 • Fax 1.303.482.1238 www.lithographie...ite; 9.:n,,..._,....,., Santa Eulalia, ch· ualwa, Mexico La Plante photo n� sp ct, Attica, Greece ion;
Report (issue)
BULLETIN 72 Mineral Deposits of Luna County, New Mexico by GEORGE B. GRISWOLD 1961 STATE BUREAU OF...RESOURCES NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE...INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY E. J. Workman, President STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES Alvin...L. Mechem....................... Governor of New Mexico Tom Wiley .................................................... Albuquerque For sale by the New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Campus Station
Report (issue)
MINERAL-RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF LUNA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO Virginia T. McLemore, Kelly Donahue, Michael...Report OF-459 New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology...Technology Socorro, New Mexico 87801 September 2001 Prepared for the New Mexico State Land Office 1 SUMMARY... SUMMARY Luna County, in southwestern New Mexico (Fig. 1) is not well known for its mineral potential...metals and nonmetals have been produced from the county from 1876 to 2000. Much of this production has
Report (issue)
States Geological Survey 1 the coal of the Oakmont mine, on Abram Creek, 1 mile southeast of Harrison, W...sulphur. On receiving a protest from the owners of the mine that this percentage is entirely too great and that...in the market, the mine was visited on July 15, 1920, by the writer, and new mine samples for analysis...cut. These represent the coal in the parts of the mine from which most of the coal is now being mined or...are as follows: Analyses of coal from the Oakmont mine, near Harrison, W. Va. '1 Ash........./.......
Report (volume)
618 GEOLOGY AND UNDERGROUND WATER OF LUNA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO BY N. H. DARTON WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...Classification______ ________________ El Paso limestone _ ___________ Distribution and character_____________:__...system_______ __ _ _________________ Fusselman limestone . , ___ Distribution and character _ _______ Fossils...Classification___:________________________ Lake Valley limestone ______________________ Distribution and character..._______ Fossils and correlation __________ Gym limestone _ !__ _ _ _ Distribution, name, and relations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CENTRAL TEXAS E. H . SELLARDS T h e EUenburger limestone, approximating, when fully developed, a thousand...are not drilled deeper than to the EUenburger limestone. T o have a knowledge of the approximate depth...paper relates to the position of the EUenburger limestone below the surface in north-central Texas as indicated...W. G. Matteson: A Review of Developments in the New Centra! Texas Oil Fields During 1918: Bull. Am. Ass'n...in determining the position of the Ellenburger limestone is indicated with such degree of accuracy as is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HistoryandPre-Excavation Geology Abstract The Bingham mining district was discovered in 1863, shortly after Caucasian...center of the district had occurredby the end of the 19th century. Breakthroughs in mining technology were...to make the depositrainable, but once begun the mine rapidly becamethe largest in the northern hemisphere...the replacementdepositsby noted experts. Prior to mining, the Bingham porphyry copper deposit was characterizedby...verticallybeneath the surfaceand work is noxvin progressto mine copperoresbeloxvthe 3,300-footlevel of the old
Report (issue)
OR PROFE SIONAL PAPER 68 THE ORE DEPOSITS OF NEW MEXI.CO BY WALDEMAR LINDGREN, LOUIS C. GRATON AND...PRQ)tESSIONAL PAPER 68 T·H E ORE DEPOSITS O.F NEW MEXICO.. . . ., .,· ;,.: BY WALDEMAR LINpGREN,........ . J,5 Historical sketch of mining and smelting in New Mexico....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..._ . Page. 62 Vein and replacement deposits in limestone, exclusive of contact-metamorphic deposits ......... : . .............. - ........ .. . . T~os County, by L. C. Graton and W ..Lindgren ..... ......
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...specimens. Some mineral aggregates, as clay, granite, limestone, sand, and sandstone, are included, because they...Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia .......................................... New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.............. New Mexico............................................................. New York. .........F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than...to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS SUGGESTIONS OF A NEW METHOD OF MAKING UNDERGROUND OBSERVATIONS J. A. UDDEN...the Bend and that of the underlying Ellenburger limestone (Ordovician) is quite generally the same. The...shale and limestone. Whether a certain part of the formation is reported as shale or as limestone will in...development, and almost all of this is one solid limestone. The Bend, which overlies it, is, as already stated... In the San Saba country it has considerable limestone. West from here it becomes more and more shaly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Persia, Burma, China, the Ralkans, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico and even in our own country. Meanwhile America...of the oil of the world and when combIned with Mexico, about 81 per cent. In 1919, while we produced...erence of about 42,000,000 barrels was imported from MexIco, our nearest available foreign supply and the country...future supply is to come. The petroleum Industry in Mexico is only sixteen years old. It may be said to have...been begun by Americans in 1904 in the Tampico district, though oil seepages were noted by the early Spandiards
Report (issue)
distant future of the field as now drilled. If no new gas wells were drilled the production would not only...worth transporting. Increase of capacity through new wells to known sands in the proved field. The" capacity...capacity of the field may be kept up for a few years by new wells drilled to known sands within the proved field...of output through new wells can not be great. Increase of capacity through finding new sands in the proved...overlooked. Increase of capacity through finding new productive area adjoining the field. The daily capacity
Report (issue)
Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund PAPER 289 Geology and Ore Deposits of...Gneissic granite ____________________ -1 ______ _ Pikes Peak granite __________________ ~ ______ _ Hornblende...formation __________________________ _ Leadville limestone ________________________ _ Belden shale and Minturn...________ -----_-------------------------Location of mining districts _____ ---- __ ----------- ~~~~~i~~~...--- - - - -- -- -- - - -- -- - --- Tincup mining district ________ ------------------Chief economic s
Report (issue)
Steinkohlengebietes" by per.:.· mission of Springer-Verlag, New York, Inc.) The Mississippian and Pennsylvanian...William J. Sando V. Colorado, by John Chronic W. New Mexico, by Augustus K. Armstrong, Frank E. Kottlowski...cooperation. This series of reports has incorporated much new geologic information and for many years will aid...Chronic--------------------------------------------------W. New Mexico, by Augustus K. Armstrong, Frank E. Kottlowski...Current interest in energy sources has led to a new interest irn evaluation of the State's coal resources
Book (edition)
APOUN FRANK RESORTS: TAINS. FOSSETT. BDILTION New York: AND STATIONER, 49 and 51 PARK PLAcz.... O Ube (\ Rio Cranbe Dress One. GLORIETA,NEW MEXICO: 87535 ©1976 The Second Rio Grande Press,...Denver, Colo. 80218 Photographically New scholarly introduction New index and proper The enlarged by...by Robert of all mines, names new by Katherine heretofore G. Huddleston, index Denver, of all...all other McMahon, unpublished Mining District, in reproduction. map Colo. places Albuquerque
Report (issue)
evaporites in Upper Permian formations, southeastern New Mexico______________________________________..__...of salts in the Salado Formation in Texas and New Mexico.___ ___.___-_28 13. Succession and mineral distribution...content of two clays from the Salado Formation, New Mexico_____________--__________--_-__--_-----Analyses...of lithological types in the Salado Formation, New Mexico and Texas, and the Paradox Member of the Hermosa...Basin of Utah, and the Salado Formation of Texas and New Mexico_____ Analyses of halite rocks of marine e
Book (edition)
Geology ,rf Second Edition JOHN WILEY § SONS, Inc. New York * London 1942, 1950 Copyright, BY Alan...requiring more scientific methods of exploration for new deposits to replace those being depleted. It is hoped...the former one, magmatic deposits are treated in new detail, as are oxidation and supergene enrichment...consolidated under hydrothermal processes, with a new preliminary discussion of hydrothermal processes...subject matter up to date. The war years brought many new mineral develop¬ ments and changes, and these have
Book (volume)
PHOSPHATES, ARSENATES, TUNGSTATES, MOLYBDATES, ETC. NEW YORK JOHN WILEY AND SONS, INC. CHAPMAN AND HALL,...the several species involved. Of the multitude of new species names that have been introduced into the...the System, comparascriptions Preface VI Other new names, including introduced to designate particular...varietal nomenclature. Thus, names introduced as new subdivisions of series in almost all instances have...to designate dimensions referred to the old and new x-ray wavelengths, respectively, following current
Book (edition)
MOUNTAINS. by Rrank Hossett. SECOND EDITION C. New "York: G. Crawford, Printer and Stationer, 49 and...interests. devoted to the mines. Part fourth is As mining is Colorado’s main industry and source of wealth...could make them. The narrative of gold and silver mining possesses enough of romance and adventure to interest...general reader, and the descriptions of mines, and of mining and milling, together with statements of requisite... The Rich Rewards of Placer and Lode Mining. The Eastern Mining Excitement and Investments of 1863-4
Book
many rivers, the proximity of much of the state to Mexico, the grea~ petroleum deposits, the arid expanse...the Mississippi delta at the time of the battle of New Orleans. In my young mind, Eggleston ranked with...Texas, I was reminded, as I tried to locate each new area of settlement, that I have never been to a locale...entitled V Texas, A Guide to the Lone Star State (New York, 1940), and to Rupert N. Richardson's Texas... FRANCE IN TEXAS 22 THE NORTHERN FRONTIER OF MEXICO, 1519- 1700 25 17th & 18th CENTURY SPANISH EXPLORATIONS
Report (volume)
definitions, of the named geologic units of Canada, Mexico, the West Indies, Central America, and Hawaii)...During all of these pauses in the work the coining of new names went on apace, until the lexicon as it stands...age designations of the geologic units of Canada, Mexico, Hawaii, the West Indies, and Central America are... 5 in., inch or inches. Circ., Circular. Co., County or Company. Indus., Industrial. Inst., Institute...contemporaneous. Lib., Library. Contr., Contribution. ls., limestone. Coop., Cooperative. lss., limestones. cor., corner
Report (volume)
HENRY GANNETT. AREA. Texas, formerly a State of Mexico, was settled in large part by United States citizens...insti1 tntions, declared their independence of Mexico in 1835. A war followed, in which by the victory...although this was never formally acknowledged by Mexico. Soon after it sought, and finally in 1845 obtained...lying east of the Rio Grande which is now in New Mexico, extending north to the forty-second parallel...of 32°, now comprised in Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico. This transfer of territory reduced the State
 
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