Mine detail: White Mine

Previously called 'Frances No. 2LyonsLa Blanca'

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Location

Lat / long:

36.46032, -106.04419

Resource(B)

Primary:	Mica
Tertiary:	Feldspar, Uranium, Thorium, REE
Ore:	Columbite, Mica, Microcline, Monazite
Gangue:	Albite, Cleavelandite, Fluorite, Garnet, Quartz
Orebody form:	OTHER DIKE
Discovery year:	1925

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1922
Last production ended:	1955

Geology

Host rock:	Ortega Quartzite
Host type:	Pegmatite
Associated type:	Pegmatite
Structure:	Fault, Strikes N 60 W And Dips Very Steeply North Northeast, Offsets Pegmatite A Few Feet
Alteration processes:	An Andesitic Dike Lies In The Fault Zone

References

MRDS	D010967
DEP	10014267
Reference	{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}
Reporter	Murray, Diane