Lone Pine 3 Mine

The Lone Pine 3 Mine is a vanadium and uranium mine located in Cibola county, New Mexico at an elevation of 7,251 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Lone Pine 3 Mine

Commodity

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

Location

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

Land Status

Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
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: Permian Basin Uranium Corp.
Home Office: Albuquerque, N.M.
Years: 1955 -

Production

Year: 1955
Time Period: 1954 To 1955
Year: 1955
Time Period: 1954 To 1955

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Stratiform
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1954
Year Last Production: 1955
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 Unit
Age Young: Late Jurassic

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

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Tyuyamunite
Ore: Barite
Ore: Uraninite
Ore: Fluorite

Comments

Comment (Location): ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE ADIT ON THE NORTHERN SIDE OF GRANTS RIDGE AS SHOWN ON THE GRANTS TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE.

Comment (Commodity): FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF MINERALS IN DEPOSITS IN TODILTO LIMESTONE SEE NMBMMR MEM 15, P. 34.

Comment (Workings): ORE MINED FROM ADIT.

References

Reference (Deposit): GRANGER, H.C., 1963 NMBMMR MEM 15, P. 21-37

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

Reference (Deposit): THADEN, R.E., SANTOS, E.S., AND RAUP, O.B., 1967 USGS MAP GQ-681

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

Reference (Production): U.S. GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS.

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