Mine detail: Conqueror Mine

Previously called 'Rio Tinto Mine'

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Location: Lincoln County, New Mexico, United States, North America
Lat / long: 34.19315, -105.73944
dep_id: 10101830
mrds_id: D010055
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Copper
Trace mineral: Barium-Barite, REE, Molybdenum
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Anglesite, Barite, Bastnaesite, Bornite, Chalcocite, Chrysocolla, Fluorite, Galena, Malachite, Pyromorphite, Wulfenite
gangue: Hematite, Limonite, Pyrite, Quartz
orebody_fm: TABULAR, IRREGULAR
work_type: Surface/Underground
model: 174: Fluorspar deposits (fluorite veins)
ore_ctrl: Brecciated Faults Trending W And Nw Within A Favorable Limestone Host Rock.
Reporter: Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.), Menzie, David, Bolm, Karen S.
hrock_unit: Yeso
hrock_type: Limestone
arock_type: Syenite,Quartz Monzonite,Trachyte
Structure: Dome Structure Caused By A Syenitic Laccolith, Two Faults Trending North And Nw
tectonic: Basin And Range
Year first produced: 1956
ylp_ba: <
yr_lst_prd: 1966
References:
  • Deposit:: WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, USBM INF CIRC 8307, P. 78.
  • Deposit:: GRISWOLD, G.B., 1959, NMBMMR BULL 67, P. 66-68, PLATES 8 AND 9.
  • Deposit:: PERHAC, R.M., 1970, NMBMMR BULL 95, P. 35-47, PLATE 1.
  • Deposit:: NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA
  • Production:: WILLIAMS, 1966, P. 78.
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