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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

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'Albite-Anorthite Series'
Anatase
Andersonite
Autunite
Barnesite
Baryte
Bayleyite
β-Uranophane
Calcite
Carnotite
Chalcopyrite
Chamosite
'Chlorite Group'
Coffinite
Corvusite
Cryptomelane
Cuprosklodowskite
Curite
Dolomite
Doloresite
Epsomite
Ferroselite
Fluorite
Galena
Goethite
Grantsite
'Gummite'
Gypsum
Häggite
Hematite
Hewettite
Illite
Ilmenite
'Ilsemannite'
Jarosite
Johannite
Jordisite
Kaolinite
'K Feldspar
var: Adularia'

Lepidocrocite
Liebigite
'Limonite'
Malachite
Marcasite
Melanterite
Meta-autunite
Metahewettite
Metatyuyamunite (TL)
Microcline
Molybdenite
Montmorillonite
Montroseite
Muscovite
Natrozippeite
Nontronite
Nováčekite-I
Paramontroseite
Pascoite
'Petrified Wood'
'Psilomelane'
Pyrite
Pyrolusite
Quartz
Rabejacite
'Rauvite'
Roscoelite
Rutherfordine
Rutile
Santafeite (TL)
Schröckingerite
Selenium
Sklodowskite
Stibnite
Thenardite
Thermonatrite
Todorokite
Tyuyamunite
Uraninite
Uranophane
Uranopilite
'Uvanite' ?
'Wad'
Weeksite
Zellerite
Zippeite


137 entries listed. 74 valid minerals. 2 type localities (valid minerals).

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