The White Rock Deposit is a mine located in Hidalgo county, New Mexico.
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White Rock Deposit MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: White Rock Deposit
Commodity
Secondary: Rhenium
Secondary: Uranium
Secondary: Thorium
Secondary: Tantalum
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Hidalgo
District: Gold Hill
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Mexican Highland
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Pegmatite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Allanite
Ore: Euxenite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): TWO ZONED PEGMATITES IN GRANITE
Comment (Workings): OPEN CUTS
References
Reference (Deposit): HEDLUND, D., UNPUBLISHED U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOL. MAPS
Reference (Deposit): GILLERMAN, E., 1964, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF WESTERN GRANT COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: NEW MEXICO BUREAU MINES AND MINERAL RES. BULL. 83, P 127
Reference (Deposit): BOYD, F. S. JR. AND WOLFE, H. D., 1953, RECENT INVESTIGATIONS OF RADIOACTIVE OCCURRENCES IN SIERRA, DONA ANA, AND HIDALGO COUNTIES, NEW MEXICO: IN NEW MEXICO GEOL. SOC. GUIDEBOOK 4TH FIELD CONF., SW NEW MEXICO, P 141-142
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