White Mine

Past Producer in Rio Arriba county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Mica, Feldspar, Uranium, Thorium, REE
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014267
MRDS ID D010967
Record type Site
Current site name White Mine
Alternate or previous names Lyons, La Blanca, Frances No. 2

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.04419, 36.46032 (WGS84)
Elevation 2326
Relative position ABOUT 35 MILES S 30 E OF TIERRA AMARILLA, NM

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Rio Arriba(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

La Madera(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Abiquiu(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Aztec(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio Chama(hydrologic unit)

Upper Rio Grande(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Carson National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Rio Arriba

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 026N 008E 25 SW OF NE New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS ACCURATE FOR PORTAL OF ADIT. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1979

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mica Primary
Feldspar Tertiary
Uranium Tertiary
Thorium Tertiary
REE Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Columbite Ore
Mica Ore
Microcline Ore
Monazite Ore
Albite Gangue
Cleavelandite Gangue
Fluorite Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) An Andesitic Dike Lies In The Fault Zone

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Rock unit name Ortega Quartzite
    Rock description Ortega Quartzite

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fault, Strikes N 60 W And Dips Very Steeply North Northeast, Offsets Pegmatite A Few Feet

Ore body information

  • General form OTHER DIKE
    Strike SLIGHTLY N OF E
    Dip 70 TO 85 N
    Plunge 35 TO 50
    Plunge direction WEST
    Thickness 15.24M
    Length 60.96M
    Width 15.24M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE DEPOSIT OCCURS IN THE PETACA SCHIST MEMBER OF THE ORTEGA QUARTZITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1925
Year of first production 1922
Year of last production 1955

Mining district

District name Petaca District: Alamos Group

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Columbium Mining And Milling Co., Inc.
    Home office La Madera, N.M.

Comments on the production information

  • REDMON ALSO REPORTS "SEVERAL HUNDRED TONS" OF SCRAP MICA PRODUCED FROM 1922 TO 1943.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • REDMON, D.E., 1961, USBM IC 8013

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF OPEN CUTS, A DECLINE, ADIT, AND SEVERAL STOPES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JUST, E., 1937, NMBMMR BULL. NO. 13, P. 66

  • Deposit

    JAHNS, R.H., 1946, NMBMMR BULL. NO. 25, P. 219-223

  • Deposit

    REDMON, D.E., 1961, USBM IC 8013, P. 39

  • Deposit

    LESURE, F.G., 1965, NMBMMR BULL. NO 87, P. 278-290

  • Deposit

    MCLEMORE, V.T., 1983, NMBMMR OFR OF-183, APPENDIX 1

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    BINGLER, E.C., 1968, NMBMMR BULL 91, P. 122-126

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SEE ALSO: ALAMOS GROUP ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit THE PEGMATITE IS DISTINCTLY ZONED.
Deposit Discovery Year: 1920'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1983 Murray, Diane New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

Beyond USGS

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

External references