Commodities
TertiaryTin, Tantalum, Lithium, Beryllium
Commodity typeM
Deposit
WorkingsSurface, Underground
Materials
Other materialsAlabandite, Apatite, Beryl, Cassiterite, Columbite, Lepidolite, Microcline, Microlite, Muscovite, Quartz, Spodumene, Tantalite
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
First production1920
Discovery year1900
Identification
Deposit ID10272951
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates36.19255, -105.79497
References
REFERENCE TO PROBABILISTIC GRADE QUANTITY MATRIX: ORE GRADETONNAGE FIGURES TAKEN FROM BUREAU OF MINES WAR MINERALS RE310, P12.BERLINGER, M. H., 1949, INVESTIGATIONS OF THE HARDING LITHIUTANTALUM DEPOSIT, TAOS COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: USBM R. I. 4607HARDING PEGMATITE DEPOSIT, TAOS COUNTY, NEW MEXICO, 1943: USMINERALS REPORT 195, 8 PP.HARDING TANTALUM-LITHIUM DEPOSITS, TAOS COUNTY, NEW MEXICO:WAR MINERALS REPORT 310, 15 PP.JUST, EVAN, 1937, GEOLOGY AND ECONOMIC FEATURES OF THE PEGMAOF TAOS AND RIO ARRIBA COUNTIES, NEW MEXICO: NEW MEXICO SCMINES BULL 13, 73 PP.SCHILLING, JOHN H., 1960, MINERAL RESOURCES OF TAOS COUNTY,MEXICO: NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES BULL 71, 124 PP.SOULE, J. H., 1946, EXPLORATION OF HARDING TANTALUM-LITHIUMDEPOSITS TAOS COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: USBM R. I. 3986, 10 PP.