Mine detail: Fridlund Mine

Previously called 'Blue Eagle No. 1'

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Location

Lat / long:

36.49282, -106.03752

Resource(B)

Primary:	Mica
Secondary:	Niobium (Columbium), Uranium, Thorium, REE
Ore:	Columbite, Mica, Monazite
Gangue:	Albite, Beryl, Bismuthinite, Bismutite, Fluorite, Garnet, Microcline, Quartz
Orebody form:	OTHER OPEN TROUGH
Discovery year:	1950

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1920
Last production ended:	1958

Geology

Host rock:	Ortega Quartzite
Host type:	Pegmatite
Associated type:	Pegmatite

References

MRDS	D010970
DEP	10014269
Reference	{Deposit:: JUST, E., 1937, NMBMMR BULL. NO.13, P.63-70}{Deposit:: JAHNS, R.H., 1946, NMBMMR BULL. NO. 25, P. 180-183}{Deposit:: REDMON, D.E., 1961, USBM IC 8013, P.33}{Deposit:: LESURE, F.G., 1965, NMBMMR BULL. NO. 87, P.278}{Deposit:: BINGLER, E.C., 1968, NMBMMR BULL. NO. 91, P.122}{Deposit:: MCLEMORE, V.T., 1983, NMBMMR OFR OF-183, APPENDIX 1}{Deposit:: NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA}{Production:: JAHNS, R.H., 1946, NMBMMR BULL 25, P. 181}
Reporter	Murray, Diane