Mine detail: White Rock Deposit

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Location: Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States, North America
Lat / long: 32.47651, -108.54506
dep_id: 10090777
mrds_id: D003339
Commodity type: metallic
Minor mineral: Rhenium, Uranium, Thorium, Tantalum
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Allanite, Euxenite
Reporter: Lawrence, V. A.
hrock_type: Pegmatite
References:
  • Deposit:: HEDLUND, D., UNPUBLISHED U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOL. MAPS
  • Deposit:: GILLERMAN, E., 1964, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF WESTERN GRANT COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: NEW MEXICO BUREAU MINES AND MINERAL RES. BULL. 83, P 127
  • Deposit:: BOYD, F. S. JR. AND WOLFE, H. D., 1953, RECENT INVESTIGATIONS OF RADIOACTIVE OCCURRENCES IN SIERRA, DONA ANA, AND HIDALGO COUNTIES, NEW MEXICO: IN NEW MEXICO GEOL. SOC. GUIDEBOOK 4TH FIELD CONF., SW NEW MEXICO, P 141-142
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