Mine detail: White Mine

Previously called 'Frances No. 2LyonsLa Blanca'

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Location: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States, North America
Lat / long: 36.46032, -106.04419
dep_id: 10014267
mrds_id: D010967
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Mica
Trace mineral: Feldspar, Uranium, Thorium, REE
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Columbite, Mica, Microcline, Monazite
gangue: Albite, Cleavelandite, Fluorite, Garnet, Quartz
orebody_fm: OTHER DIKE
alteration: An Andesitic Dike Lies In The Fault Zone
Reporter: Murray, Diane
hrock_unit: Ortega Quartzite
hrock_type: Pegmatite
arock_type: Pegmatite
Structure: Fault, Strikes N 60 W And Dips Very Steeply North Northeast, Offsets Pegmatite A Few Feet
Year first produced: 1922
yr_lst_prd: 1955
disc_yr: 1925
References:
  • Deposit:: JUST, E., 1937, NMBMMR BULL. NO. 13, P. 66
  • Deposit:: JAHNS, R.H., 1946, NMBMMR BULL. NO. 25, P. 219-223
  • Deposit:: REDMON, D.E., 1961, USBM IC 8013, P. 39
  • Deposit:: LESURE, F.G., 1965, NMBMMR BULL. NO 87, P. 278-290
  • Deposit:: MCLEMORE, V.T., 1983, NMBMMR OFR OF-183, APPENDIX 1
  • Deposit:: NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA
  • Deposit:: BINGLER, E.C., 1968, NMBMMR BULL 91, P. 122-126
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