Petaca District

Producer in Rio Arriba county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Tantalum, REE, Thorium, Niobium (Columbium)
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Bibliographic references
  10. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000266
MRDS ID D001879
Record type District
Current site name Petaca District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.03388, 36.51674 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Rio Arriba(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Las Tablas(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Chama(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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tantalum Critical Primary
REE Critical Primary
Thorium Primary
Niobium (Columbium) Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.03388, 36.51674

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Mining district

District name PETACA DISTRICT

Reference information

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1975 PARKER, RAYMOND L. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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