The Harding Pegmatite is a mine located in Taos county, New Mexico at an elevation of 7,392 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 7,392 Feet (2,253 Meters)
Commodity:
Lat, Long: 36.1925, -105.79440
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Harding Pegmatite MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Harding Pegmatite
Commodity
Tertiary: Tin
Tertiary: Tantalum
Tertiary: Lithium
Tertiary: Beryllium
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Taos
District: Picuris
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
Type: Patented
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Montgomery, Arthur
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: New Mexico
Info Year: 1975
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Year First Production: 1920
Discovery Year: 1900
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Southern Rocky Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Unknown: Cassiterite
Unknown: Apatite
Unknown: Beryl
Unknown: Columbite
Unknown: Lepidolite
Unknown: Microcline
Unknown: Microlite
Unknown: Muscovite
Unknown: Quartz
Unknown: Spodumene
Unknown: Tantalite
Unknown: Alabandite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): REFERENCE TO RECORD 050: BUREAU OF MINES EXTENSIVELY DRILLED PEGMATITE DURING LATE 1930S AND EARLY 1940S. REFERENCE TO RECORD 070: PEGMATITE HAS LARGEST OCCURRENCE OF MICROLITE IN THE U.S. PEGMATITE MINED FOR ITS LEPIDOLITE, SPODUMEME, BERYL, AND MICROLITE. PEGMATITE SHOWS COMPLEX OUTER PEGMATITE CONTAINS QUARTZ-MICROCLINE-MUSCOVITE-ALBIT FACIES. INNER ZONE CONTAINS TANTALUM-LITHIUM MINERALS. CAS ITE FOUND AS A MINOR OCCURRENCE. ONE 30-TON MICROLITE CONC CONTAINED 0.23% CASSITERITE (WAR MINERALS REPORT 310, 1944 REFERENCE TO RECORDS 120 AND 130: DEPOSIT PRINCIPALLY QUARRI (APPROXIMATELY 40000 TONS), BUT IN CENTER OF SOUTH FACE, O MINED BY ROOM AND PILLAR METHOD.
References
Reference (Deposit): SOULE, J. H., 1946, EXPLORATION OF HARDING TANTALUM-LITHIUM
Reference (Deposit): MEXICO: NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES BULL 71, 124 PP.
Reference (Deposit): SCHILLING, JOHN H., 1960, MINERAL RESOURCES OF TAOS COUNTY,
Reference (Deposit): MINES BULL 13, 73 PP.
Reference (Deposit): OF TAOS AND RIO ARRIBA COUNTIES, NEW MEXICO: NEW MEXICO SC
Reference (Deposit): JUST, EVAN, 1937, GEOLOGY AND ECONOMIC FEATURES OF THE PEGMA
Reference (Deposit): WAR MINERALS REPORT 310, 15 PP.
Reference (Deposit): HARDING TANTALUM-LITHIUM DEPOSITS, TAOS COUNTY, NEW MEXICO:
Reference (Deposit): MINERALS REPORT 195, 8 PP.
Reference (Deposit): HARDING PEGMATITE DEPOSIT, TAOS COUNTY, NEW MEXICO, 1943: US
Reference (Deposit): TANTALUM DEPOSIT, TAOS COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: USBM R. I. 4607
Reference (Deposit): BERLINGER, M. H., 1949, INVESTIGATIONS OF THE HARDING LITHIU
Reference (Deposit): 310, P12.
Reference (Deposit): TONNAGE FIGURES TAKEN FROM BUREAU OF MINES WAR MINERALS RE
Reference (Deposit): REFERENCE TO PROBABILISTIC GRADE QUANTITY MATRIX: ORE GRADE
Reference (Deposit): DEPOSITS TAOS COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: USBM R. I. 3986, 10 PP.
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