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Found Here
Geology and deposit
- Host rock
- Diorite
- Orebody form
- PINCH-AND-SWELL VEIN
- Tectonic setting
- Basin And Range
- Deposit model
- 151: Epithermal vein, Sado
Schistosity And Fractures, Folding Of Early Schistosity
Mining history
- Status
- Past Producer
- Workings
- Underground
- Production size
- Small
- Discovered
- 1885
- First production
- 1895
- Last production
- 1907
Records and references
JONES, F.A., 1904, NEW MEXICO MINES AND MINERALS (WORLD'S FAIR ED.): SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO PRINTING CO. P. 349. NORTHROP, S.A., 1959, MINERALS OF NEW MEXICO, REVISED EDITION: ALBUQUERQUE, UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS, 404 P. LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, GRATON, L.C., AND GORDON, C.H., 1910, THE ORE DEPOSITS OF NEW MEXICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 68, P. 124-126, 130-132. BINGLER, E.C., 1968, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF RIO ARRIBA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 91, P. 86-94. BINGLER, E.C., 1974, METALLIC DEPOSITS OF THE TUSAS MOUNTAINS, IN SIEMERS, C.T., ED., SILVER ANNIVERSARY GUIDEBOOK, CENTRAL-NORTHERN NEW MEXICO: NEW MEXICO GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY GUIDEBOOK, 25TH FIELD CONFERENCE, P. 317-320. NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES, GENERAL FILE DATA.
Data: USGS Mineral Resources Data System, record 10038237 — view the source record
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Location on Map
Coordinates: 36.65504, -106.14364
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