Mine detail: Baby Mine

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Location: Catron County, New Mexico, United States, North America
Lat / long: 33.42065, -108.8237
dep_id: 10087750
mrds_id: D009058
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Uranium, Vanadium
Trace mineral: Fluorine-Fluorite
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Roscoelite
gangue: Calcite, Pyrite, Quartz
other_matl: Fluorite
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR
work_type: Surface/Underground
ore_ctrl: Fault-Fracture Structural Control.
Reporter: Menzie, David
hrock_type: Andesite
arock_unit: Last Chance Andesite;Whitewater Creek Rhyolite
arock_type: Rhyolite
Year first produced: 1956
yr_lst_prd: 1956
References:
  • Deposit:: FERGUSON, H.G., 1927 USGS BULL 787, 100 PAGES, GEOLOGIC MAP
  • Deposit:: NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA
  • Production:: U.S. GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS.
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