Mine detail: Red Cloud Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

34.19731, -105.74361

Resource(B)

Primary:	Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary:	Barium-Barite, REE
Ore:	Barite, Bastnasite, Fluorite
Gangue:	Calcite, Clay, Limonite, Pyrite, Quartz
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR MANTO
Discovery year:	1925

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1952
Last production ended:	1952

Geology

Host rock:	Yeso
Host type:	Sandstone
Associated type:	Syenite,Quartz Monzonite
Structure:	Dome Structure Caused By A Syenitic Laccolith., An Ene And Nnw Trending Faults
Tectonic:	Basin And Range

References

MRDS	D010067
DEP	10013654
Reference	{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.}
Reporter	Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.)