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White Rock Deposit

Occurrence in Hidalgo county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Rhenium, Uranium, Thorium, Tantalum
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  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10090777
MRDS ID D003339
Record type Site
Current site name White Rock Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.54506, 32.47651 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hidalgo(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lordsburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Animas Valley(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Gila 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 Hidalgo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 021S 017W 13 SE4 New Mexico

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Rhenium Secondary
Uranium Secondary
Thorium Secondary
Tantalum Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Allanite Ore
Euxenite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Gold Hill

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN CUTS

Reference information

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TWO ZONED PEGMATITES IN GRANITE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1978 Lawrence, V. A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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