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Grants District, McKinley Co., New Mexico, USA

Extends into Cibola County.
A twenty mile wide trend that extends for almost 100 miles of uranium in various sedimentary rocks.
The Todilto limestone (Upper Jurassic) was some of the earliest located mines that were mined either with open pits or shallow mines. Mineralogy is uraninite, some of which has been oxidized by being near the surface.




Mineral list contains contents from all localities listed at bottom of page


Mineral List:
  • 'Albite-Anorthite Series'
  • Anatase
  • Andersonite
  • Autunite
  • Barnesite
  • Baryte
  • Bayleyite
  • β-Uranophane
  • Calcite
  • Carnotite
  • 'Chalcedony
    var: Petrified Wood'
  • Chalcopyrite
  • Chamosite
  • 'Chlorite Group'
  • Coffinite
  • Corvusite
  • Cryptomelane
  • Cuprosklodowskite
  • Curite
  • Doloresite
  • Ferroselite
  • Fluorite
  • Galena
  • Goethite
  • Grantsite
  • 'Gummite'
  • Gypsum
  • Häggite
  • Hematite
  • Hewettite
  • Illite
  • Ilsemannite
  • Jarosite
  • Jordisite
  • Kaolinite
  • Lepidocrocite
  • Liebigite
  • Limonite
  • Malachite
  • Marcasite
  • Metahewettite
  • Metatyuyamunite
  • Microcline
  • Minnesotaite ?
  • Molybdenite
  • Montmorillonite
  • Montroseite
  • Muscovite
  • Natrozippeite
  • Nontronite
  • Nováčekite
  • Paramontroseite
  • Pascoite
  • 'Psilomelane'
  • Pyrite
  • Pyrolusite
  • Quartz
  • Rauvite
  • Roscoelite
  • Rutherfordine
  • Rutile
  • Santafeite (TL)
  • Schröckingerite
  • Selenium
  • Sklodowskite
  • Stibnite
  • Thenardite
  • Thermonatrite
  • Todorokite
  • Tyuyamunite
  • Uraninite
  • Uranophane
  • Uranopilite
  • Uvanite ?
  • Weeksite
  • Zellerite
  • Zippeite


    77 entries listed. 68 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

    Localities in this Region:
    USA
     
    • New Mexico
      • McKinley Co.
        • Grants District
    USA
     
    • New Mexico
      • McKinley Co.
        • Grants District
          • Ambrosia Lake area

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