Lone Pine 3 Mine

Past Producer in Cibola county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Vanadium, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Production statistics
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012894
MRDS ID D008892
Record type Site
Current site name Lone Pine 3 Mine
Related records 10174440

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.80673, 35.20062 (WGS84)
Elevation 2210
Relative position ABOUT 4 MILES N 35 E OF GRANTS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cibola(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Grants(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Grants(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Albuquerque(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio San Jose(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NM)

Bureau of Land Management NM BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Cibola

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 011N 009W 08 NE New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE ADIT ON THE NORTHERN SIDE OF GRANTS RIDGE AS SHOWN ON THE GRANTS TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Vanadium Critical Primary
Uranium Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF MINERALS IN DEPOSITS IN TODILTO LIMESTONE SEE NMBMMR MEM 15, P. 34.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Fluorite Ore
Tyuyamunite Ore
Uraninite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Todilto Limestone
    Rock description Todilto Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.80673, 35.20062

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1954
Year of last production 1955

Mining district

District name Grants Uranium District: Ambrosia Lake Subdistrict

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Permian Basin Uranium Corp.
    Home office Albuquerque, N.M.
    First year 1955

Production statistics

  • Year 1955
    Period 1954 To 1955
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major U3O8 Uranium Uranium 0wt-pct
  • Year 1955
    Period 1954 To 1955
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major V2O5 Vanadium Vanadium 0wt-pct

Comments on the workings information

  • ORE MINED FROM ADIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GRANGER, H.C., 1963 NMBMMR MEM 15, P. 21-37

  • Deposit

    MCLAUGHLIN, E.D., JR, 1963 NMBMMR MEM 15, P. 136-149

  • Deposit

    THADEN, R.E., SANTOS, E.S., AND RAUP, O.B., 1967 USGS MAP GQ-681

  • Deposit

    HILPERT, L.S., 1969 USGS PP 603, P. 58

  • Production

    U.S. GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1982 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.