Box Canyon deposit, Lemitar Mountains Mining District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USAi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Box Canyon deposit | Deposit (Abandoned) |
| Lemitar Mountains Mining District | Mining District |
| Socorro County | County |
| New Mexico | State |
| USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
34° 9' 18'' North , 106° 59' 4'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Type:
Deposit (Abandoned) - last checked 2025
Köppen climate type:
The Box Canyon claims are located about 3 ½ miles west of Lemitar in the south end of the Lemitar Mountains at about 5,725 feet elevation. The claims consist of at least three trenches and a shallow shaft. The country rock on the dump piles is a mostly Proterozoic diorite and mineralization is sparse.
Heft (et al., 2022) summarized Lasky (1932) which “first mentioned small galena-barite fissure-filling veins in the Proterozoic rocks and in limestones along the unconformity between the Proterozoic rocks and Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in the district. Carbonate-hosted replacement lead-zinc deposits are found in the Kelley Limestone at the Box Canyon mine, similar to but much smaller than the carbonate-hosted replacement lead-zinc deposits in the Magdalena district to the southwest.”
In 2025, pieces of skeletonized quartz containing tiny weathered crystals of galena and occasionally hemimorphite were found near the shaft. In the eastern trench, a narrow zone of barite is exposed and one can find micro crystals of barite, quartz, weathered galena and occasional small vugs with micro hemimorphite crystals. No fluorite was found.
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsMineral List
5 valid minerals.
Rock Types Recorded
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Alphabetical List Tree DiagramDetailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Baryte Formula: BaSO4 |
| ⓘ Fluorite Formula: CaF2 |
| ⓘ Galena Formula: PbS References: D. Wells collectionIdentified by David Wells: Visual Identification |
| ⓘ Hemimorphite Formula: Zn4Si2O7(OH)2 · H2O References: D. Wells collectionIdentified by David Wells: Visual Identification |
| ⓘ Quartz Formula: SiO2 |
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List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Galena | 2.CD.10 | PbS |
| Group 3 - Halides | |||
| ⓘ | Fluorite | 3.AB.25 | CaF2 |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| ⓘ | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| Group 7 - Sulphates, Chromates, Molybdates and Tungstates | |||
| ⓘ | Baryte | 7.AD.35 | BaSO4 |
| Group 9 - Silicates | |||
| ⓘ | Hemimorphite | 9.BD.10 | Zn4Si2O7(OH)2 · H2O |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| H | Hydrogen | |
|---|---|---|
| H | ⓘ Hemimorphite | Zn4Si2O7(OH)2 · H2O |
| O | Oxygen | |
| O | ⓘ Baryte | BaSO4 |
| O | ⓘ Hemimorphite | Zn4Si2O7(OH)2 · H2O |
| O | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| F | Fluorine | |
| F | ⓘ Fluorite | CaF2 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | ⓘ Hemimorphite | Zn4Si2O7(OH)2 · H2O |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| S | Sulfur | |
| S | ⓘ Baryte | BaSO4 |
| S | ⓘ Galena | PbS |
| Ca | Calcium | |
| Ca | ⓘ Fluorite | CaF2 |
| Zn | Zinc | |
| Zn | ⓘ Hemimorphite | Zn4Si2O7(OH)2 · H2O |
| Ba | Barium | |
| Ba | ⓘ Baryte | BaSO4 |
| Pb | Lead | |
| Pb | ⓘ Galena | PbS |
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| Link to USGS MRDS: | 10012385 |
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Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
North AmericaContinent
North America PlateTectonic Plate
- Baca BasinBasin
- Mazatzal DomainDomain
- Orogrande BasinBasin
- Rio Grande RiftNarrow Rift
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