Mine detail: La Bajada Mine

Previously called 'Mine: La MajadaLone StarLa Bahada'

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Location: Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States, North America
Lat / long: 35.5495, -106.20808
dep_id: 10008418
mrds_id: D000584
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Copper, Uranium, Silver
Trace mineral: Molybdenum, Cobalt, Germanium, Nickel, Thorium, Sulfur, Arsenic
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Bornite, Brannerite, Chalcopyrite, Colusite, Marcasite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR
conc_proc: Hypogene-Near Surface And Low Temperature
ore_ctrl: A North-Trending Fault (La Bajada)
Reporter: King, Robert U., Murray, Diane
hrock_type: Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
arock_unit: Espinosa Volcanics;Cieneguilla Limburgite
arock_type: Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
Structure: La Bajada Fault, North-Trending La Bajada
tectonic: Jemez-La Bajada Constriction
Year first produced: 1915
yr_lst_prd: 1979
disc_yr: 1915
discr: George Rinaldi, Bland, Nm (1918).
References:
  • Deposit:: LUSTIG, L.K., 1957, UNPUB. MASTER THESIS, UNIV. OF NEW MEXICO.
  • Deposit:: KING, R.U., 1965, NMBMMR BULL 87, P. 206
  • Deposit:: ELSTON, W.E., 1967, NMBMMR BULL 81, P. 36-37.
  • Deposit:: HAJI-VASSILIOU, A. AND P.F. KERR, 1972, ECON GEOL, V67, P. 41-54
  • Deposit:: CHENOWETH, W.L., 1979, NMGS GUIDEBOOK; 30TH FIELD CONFERENCE, P. 261-264
  • Deposit:: ANDERSON, O.J., 1980, NMBMMR OFR-148,
  • Deposit:: MCLEMORE, V.T., 1983, NMBMMR OFR-183, APPENDIX 1
  • Deposit:: NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA
  • Production:: CHENOWETH, W.L., 1979, NMGS GUIDEBOOK, 30TH FIELD CONFERENCE, P. 263
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