Red Bluff Claims

The Red Bluff Claims is a uranium mine located in Cibola county, New Mexico at an elevation of 7,024 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Red Bluff Claims
Secondary: Claims
Secondary: Red Bluff Nos. 3,5,7,8,9 and 10
Secondary: Gay Eagle
Secondary: Black Hawk
Secondary: Bunny
Secondary: Christmas Day 1 and Phil
Secondary: Udc 5

Commodity

Primary: Uranium
Secondary: Vanadium
Tertiary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary: Barium-Barite

Location

State: New Mexico
County: Cibola
District: Grants Uranium District: Ambrosia Lake Subdistrict

Land Status

Land ownership: Private
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

Owner Name: Mesa Mining Co.
Home Office: Milan, N.M.
Years: 1964 -

Production

Year: 1964
Time Period: 1952-1964
Year: 1964
Time Period: 1952-1964

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Stratiform
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1952
Year Last Production: 1964
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Colorado Plateaus
Physiographic Section: Datil Section

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Form: IRREGULAR

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Limestone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Jurassic

Name: Limestone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Jurassic

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Pitchblende
Ore: Uranophane
Ore: Carnotite
Ore: Tyuyamunite
Ore: Fluorite
Ore: Barite

Comments

Comment (Location): ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE CENTER OF THE EAST HALF OF SECTION 4.

Comment (Commodity): FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF MINERALS ASSOCIATED WITH DEPOSITS IN THE TODILTO LIMESTONE SEE H.C. GRANGER, 1963 NMBMMR MEM 15, P. 33-35.

Comment (Deposit): ABOUT 18 INDIVIDUAL OREBODIES FORM A LOCAL BELT TRENDING NORTH-SOUTH.

Comment (Workings): MINED FROM OPEN PITS AND BY A FEW SHORT ADITS DRIVEN FROM THE PIT WALLS.

References

Reference (Deposit): MCLAUGHLIN, E.D., JR., 1963 NMBMMR MEM 15, P.136-149

Reference (Deposit): PERRY, B.L., 1963 NMBMMR MEM 15, P.150-156

Reference (Deposit): THADEN, R.E., SANTOS, E.S., AND OSTLING, E.J., 1967 USGS MAP GQ-680

Reference (Deposit): HILPERT, L.S., 1969 USGS PP 603, P.58-59

Reference (Production): U.S. GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS

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