New Mexico · Grant County
Past Producer
Liberty Bell Mine
Grant County, New Mexico, United States
Copper
Silver
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Commodities
Primary
Copper
Secondary
Silver
Commodity type
M
Deposit
Deposit size
S
Workings
Surface/Underground
Orebody form
IRREGULAR
Ore control
Fault-Fracture Structural Control.
Materials
Ore minerals
Chalcocite, Chrysocolla
Geology
Host rock
Quartz Monzonite
Associated rock
Quartz Monzonite · Tyrone Quartz Monzonite
Structure
Deposits Occur Along The Northeast Striking Burro Chief Fault.
Alteration
Sericitization, Kaolinization And Silicification.
Economic & production
Development status
Past Producer
First production
1900
Last production
1946
Identification
Deposit ID
10013304
MRDS ID
D009527
Alternate names
Copper Mountian
Region
NA
Data score
B
Coordinates
32.63179, -108.39729
References
GILLERMAN, E., 1964 NMBMMR BULL 83, P. 53-54HEDLUND, D.C., 1978 USGS MISC. FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-1031NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA