Harding Pegmatite

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

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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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