Mine detail: Rosario Open-Pit Mine

Previously called 'Mine: Rosario Mine'

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Location: Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States, North America
Lat / long: 35.48062, -106.22475
dep_id: 10014713
mrds_id: D011602
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Gypsum-Anhydrite
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Stratiform
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Producer
ore: Gypsum
orebody_fm: TABULAR
Reporter: Murray, Diane
hrock_unit: Todilto
hrock_type: Limestone
Structure: North-Trending Rosario Fault, Several Minor Faults
tectonic: Cerrillos Uplift
Year first produced: 1960
yr_lst_prd: 1983
discr: Catron Land Company (?)
References:
  • Deposit:: DARTON, N.H., 1920, USGS BULL 697, P. 161-186
  • Deposit:: STEARNS, C.E., 1953, GSA BULL, V. 64, P. 459-507
  • Deposit:: WEBER, R.H., AND F.E. KOTTLOWSKI, 1959, NMBMMR BULL 68, P. 19-23
  • Deposit:: WEBER, R.H., 1965, NMBMMR BULL 87, P. 324-332
  • Deposit:: ELSTON, W.E., 1967, NMBMMR BULL 81, P. 55-56
  • Deposit:: NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA
  • Production:: MCLEMORE, V.T., 1983, NMBMMR OFR-183, APPENDIX 1
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