Mine detail: Red Cloud Mine

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Location: Lincoln County, New Mexico, United States, North America
Lat / long: 34.19731, -105.74361
dep_id: 10013654
mrds_id: D010067
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Fluorine-Fluorite
Trace mineral: Barium-Barite, REE
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Barite, Bastnasite, Fluorite
gangue: Calcite, Clay, Limonite, Pyrite, Quartz
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR MANTO
work_type: Underground
model: 174: Fluorspar deposits (fluorite veins)
ore_ctrl: Breccia Zone In Sandstone Just West Of The Intersection Of An Ene And Nnw Trending Faults.
Reporter: Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.)
hrock_unit: Yeso
hrock_type: Sandstone
arock_type: Syenite,Quartz Monzonite
Structure: Dome Structure Caused By A Syenitic Laccolith., An Ene And Nnw Trending Faults
tectonic: Basin And Range
Year first produced: 1952
yr_lst_prd: 1952
disc_yr: 1925
References:
  • Deposit:: WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, USBM INF CIRC 8307, P. 76.
  • Deposit:: ROTHROCK, HE, 1946, NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 110-113.
  • Deposit:: SOULE, JH, 1946, USBM R I 3854, P. 7.
  • Deposit:: GRISWOLD, GB, 1959, NMBMMR BULL 67.
  • Production:: GRISWOLD, GB, 1959.
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