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Thorite from
Harding Mine, Picuris District, Taos County, New Mexico, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Thorite
Formula:Th(SiO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Thorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Harding Mine, Picuris District, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:171407
Long-form Identifier:1:3:171407:4
GUID (UUID V4):a503cd1b-f2ad-404c-b4e1-c33e1a5d97ce
Nearest other occurrences of Thorite
36.7km (22.8 miles) ā“˜La Paloma deposit, La Madera-Paloma Canyon area, Petaca Mining District, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, USA
39.8km (24.7 miles) ā“˜Fridlund deposit, Cribbenville area, Petaca Mining District, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, USA
40.2km (25.0 miles) ā“˜Coats Pegmatite (American), La Jarita-Apache area, Petaca Mining District, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, USA
43.3km (26.9 miles) ā“˜North Star deposit (Miller deposit), La Jarita-Apache area, Petaca Mining District, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
leaf gold, smoky quark, and turquoise specimens, New Mexico boasts an array of mineral species. RAMON S....Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110 THE PURPOSE OF THIS INDEX is to provide a comprehensive listing of New Mexico...Particular attention was directed toward incorporating new information on discoveries and occurrences, although...to compile all of the mineral occurrences in New Mexico-a venture of that magnitude is beyond the scope...Minerals of New Mexico is the basic reference for locations. Abstracts from the New Mexico mineral symposia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Picuris Range,New Mexico. GEOCHEMISTRY OF TANTALUM IN THE HARDING PEGMATITE, TAOS COUNTY, NEW...NEW MEXICO* ge,M assachusetts, Anrnun M oNrcoruBnu, H araaril IJniaersity, Cambrid, Ansrnecr Mexico, lhe...notable tantalum enrichmentin the Harding pegmatite,in northern New environ(2) favorable (1) granite,...IrrnooucrroN The Harding pegmatite is in north-central New Mexico, mid-way between Santa Fe and Taos and 5 miles...Dixon. lt lies 20 miles from Taos, in the far southwest corner of the Picuris Range, a 16-mileIong spur
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
radiation effects of thorite-group minerals from the Harding pegmatite,Taos County, New Mexico GnnconvR. Luvrprrr'q...Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131' U.S.A. Ansrn-lcr Dark brown...microclinespodumenezone of the Harding pegmatite, Taos County, New Mexico. Electron-microplobe analyses(wto/o)give...mixed types of hydroxyl species.Both varieties of thorite are partially recrystallized.In the brown variety...alpha-decay{amaged thorite enriched in P and V is inferred to be lower than for ideal thorite or U-rich microlites
Report (issue)
BERYLLIUM RESOURCES IN NEW MEXICO AND ADJACENT AREAS Virginia T. McLemore New Mexico Bureau of Geology and...and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Socorro, NM 87801 ginger@gis.nmt...preliminary and has not been reviewed according to New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources standards...considered final and is subject to revision based upon new information. Any resource or reserve data are historical...reactors. Beryllium deposits in Utah, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico range from small (Apache Warm Springs
Book (edition)
org/details/mineralsofnewmexOOnort MINERALS OF NEW MEXICO Before all things, there which has them ...Henderson, 1933 MINERALS of New Mexico STUART A. NORTHROP University of Mew Mexico PROPERTY OF HBSIER ...UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS ALBUQUERQUE Ā© 1944. 1959. UNIVERSITY OFNEW MEXICO PRESS ALL RIGHTS...BOUND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRINTING PLANT ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, U. S. A. FOR IVAH 1...history of New Mexico mineralogy and mining 3 5 Prehistoric utilization of minerals New New Mexico under
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Menai, New South Wales 2234, Ans1nalla RooNev C. Ewruc Department of Geology, University of New Mexico...Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, U.S.A. Ansrru.cr A qualitative picture of microlite stability is derived...Ryn + goethite Brown Derby pegmatite,Gunnison County, CO, fepidolite{u aftz zone Opportunity pegmatite...pegmatite, Mora County, NM, lepidolite4uartz zone Fungwe district, Zimbabwe 231 324 327 Harding pegmatite...pegmatite,Taos County, NM, cleave. landite unit 153, 260, P5.1 1 5 4 , 2 6 4 , 2 6 9 ,P 1 5 . 1 , Harding pegmatite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA Abstract. X-ray diffraction...increasing dose H R T E M images of microlites from the Harding pegmatite sequentially exhibit: 1) mottled diffraction...Analytical procedures for microlite samples from the Harding pegmatite are reported in a pre- Microlite single...crystals hand picked from an ore concentrate from the Harding pegmatite were mounted on a Gandolfi attachment...i o n (Ural Mountains) 088 096 230 0.2 0.3 0.1 New England (Maine, Connecticu0 087 152 198 201 291
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
name ā€œthorogummiteā€ for any hydrated, metamict thorite or unidentified alteration product of a Th-bearing...ā€œthorogummiteā€ and other alteration products of thorite were performed on heterogeneous mixtures of mostly...proposed (SiO4)4ā€“ ā†” (OH)44ā€“ substitution between thorite and thorogummite was examined and shown to be an...are Th- and Si-dominant and must be considered thorite. Furthermore, the majority of the compositions...ā€œthorogummiteā€ are simply metastable hydrated or metamict thorite with varying volumes of other alteration products
Journal (issue)
SwitZ6rl3nd , photomicrography: Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York Famous Mineral Localities ā€”The Pulsifer Quarry...................78 by Pete J. Dunn The snowbird Mine, Montanaā€™s Parisite Loca lity.....................Creek Pegmatite: A Rare Earth Pegmatite in Burnet County, Texas............................................ 95 by R.W. Thomssen and J.W. Anthony Uvite, a New (Old) Common Member of the Tourmaline Group and Its...bV P J - Bridge, J.L. Daniels, and M.W. Pryce A New Mineral: Perloffite, The Fe*+ Analogue of B jarebyite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The field work was done by the senior author in New Mexico and Colorado at various times during the summers...Michigan, which fund also paid the cost of five new chemical analyses. This study is a part of the research...Signal Corps, Squier Signal Laboratory, Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey, under the general supervision of Dr. S. Benedict...Laboratories, Western Australia. OccunnpNcns United States New England Goshen, Massachusetls.'The occurrence of...with cleancut contacts." New Mexico Harding pegmatite, Taos County.' The Harding pegmatite has been known
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
David M. Seaman American Museum of Natural History, New York City Article 7, Silica and Silicates (part two)...almandite was recovered at 35th Street and Broadway in New York City and is in the American Museum of Natural...166th St. and Knowlton Place in New York City. Both are a part of the New York Mineralogical Club's collection...Maine, and at the Ruggles quarry, Grafton Center, New Hampshire. Notable excellently formed almandite garnets...Russell and Westfield, Massachusetts ; from Bedford, New York ; and many other places. The crystals occur
Report (issue)
Bulletin 87 New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources A DIVISION OF NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING...& TECHNOLOGY Mineral and Water Resources of New Mexico I'repared by U.S. Geological Survey for the...with: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission New Mexico...SOCORRO1977 NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Cibutus R. HOLMES. Acting President NEW MEXICO BUREAU...OF REGENTS Ex Officio Bruce King, Governor of New Mexico Leonard DeLayu, Superintendent of Public Instrucilun
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Page Brook Road, Carlisle, MA 10741, Massachusetts, USA Steinmann Institute, University of Bonn, Bonn, D-53012...temperatures, for example, davidite may break down to new phase assemblages including titanite, ilmenite and...crichtonite (mainly davidite), zircon (with comments on thorite) and monazite. A broader description of nuclear...and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southern New Mexico are developed in volcanic rock and within a salt...Apatite-zircon-thorite-titanite-allanite Monazite-zircon-apatite-xenotime Pyrochlore, thorite Nb-rich pyrochlore
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Arbor, Michigan 48109-1005, U.S.A. Abstract U-thorite, (Th,U)SiO4, from Ambohijatrova Masindray, Madagascar...electron microprobe analyses reveal two types of U-thorite: (i) large (about 1 cm), orange, amorphous grains...01Si1.00Ā±0.01; and (ii) green, microcrystalline U-thorite with composition: (Th0.76Ā±0.05 U0.08Ā±0.01Ca0.07Ā±0...005REE0.009Ā±0.001)0.92Ā±0.07Si1.12Ā±0.06. Ca-free U-thorite-(i) is enriched in Th, U, and Pb (7.1, 1.2, and...in Si (3.0 wt%) compared to U-thorite-(ii). Recrystallization of U-thorite-(i) resulted in fracturing that
Book
QE144.T36 New Mexico N49 Geological~ Society. (SSth : Field 2004 : Geology Conference Taos, N.M. ...Paul W. Bauer Adam S. Read Virgil W. Lueth New Mexico Geological Society _ Fifty-fifth Annual Field...etree: ROAD LOGS Tue Taos PLareau AND Rio Granpe Gorce - First-day road log from Taos to Questa, the Wild...Bridge, the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge and return to Taos eae Adam S. Read, Paul W. Bauer, Ren A. Thompson...facility, Questa, New Mexico 1.22. ccae Alteration scars in the Red River Valley, Taos C io New M actrees
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2005 Copyright Ā© 2005 Elsevier Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/05 $30.00 ā«¹ .00 doi:10...Formation enthalpy of ThSiO4 and enthalpy of the thorite Ā” huttonite phase transition LENA MAZEINA,1 SERGEY...California 95616, USA 2 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak-Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA (Received December...Abstractā€”The standard enthalpy of formation of thorite and huttonite and the enthalpy of the phase transition...calorimetry. Standard enthalpies of formation of thorite and huttonite are reported for the first time and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Publishers B.V., A m s t e r d a m 133 [3] Thorite in fault zones of a granitic pluton, Atikokan,...ABSTRACT Kamineni, D.C. and Lemire, R.J., 1991. Thorite in fault zones of a granitic pluton, Atikokan,...fuel waste disposal. Chem. Geol., 90:133-143. Thorite, identified under a scanning electron microscope...and development of corona structures around the thorite suggest its growth during postkinematic conditions...ThO2 and SiO2 constitute the major oxides in the thorite found in the pluton, while Ce203, Fe203, CaO, UO2
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
STRUCTURE DETERMINATION OF A UNIQUE Nb-Ti-RICH THORITE FROM MONT SAINT-HILAIRE, QUEBEC, WITH COMMENTS...Abstract The crystal chemistry of a unique Nb-Ti-rich thorite from Mont Saint-Hilaire (Quebec) has been examined...for 68 reflections with Fo > 4Ļƒ(Fo). The studied thorite is slightly metamict, tetragonal, space group I41/amd...has a unit cell which is 4% smaller than that of thorite sensu stricto, a result of the incorporation of...bisdisphenoid with = 2.374 ƅ. The T site in MSH thorite is only partially occupied by Si (33% vacant) and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
S. Dak., and the Hyatt Beryl pegmatite,Larimer County, Colo.; and to JamesJ. Page,who furnishedmostof...presentedin descriptions of the Rugglesand Palermominesin New Hampshire. The assistanceof Mr. Michael Fleischerand...1. Cross section,Hyatt Beryl pegrnatite,Larimer County, Colo. Fracture-filling units are tabular or veinlike...Dana's system of mineralogy, 7th edition, vol. 1, New York, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1944. 2 Except where... Fe, At, Ca Th andSi(?) New York, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1926. s Ellsworth
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
radioactive minerals, such as monazite, zircon, thorite, uraninite is of great interest for both U-Pb age...2002b; 2003; 2004). The two polymorphs of ThSiO4, thorite and huttonite, have the zircon (I41/amd) and monazite...they have an opposite behaviour to irradiation. Thorite has been found mostly in a metamict (i.e. amorphous)...ThSiO4 was previously thorite, since the only criterion to distinguish thorite from the huttonite is...xenotime and (Th) to a thorium silicate, probably thorite or huttonite. Many radiating fractures are visible
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ogicalObseraatory(Columbi.aUnioersity), palisad.es,New vork. Assrnacr The discordant ages obtained from...type. The available pertinent data including some new measurements made at this laboratory are compared...208/232<<206/238<207/23S1probable age; samarskite, thorite, sphene208/232<206/238<20U235 (probable age; euxenite...(1956) made a detailed study of the Lake Athabasca district pitchblendes. The ages within a specific sample...This same pattern of ages appears at the Sunshine Mine, Idaho, and in the Witwatersrand * LamontGeological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of intermediate solid solutions in the system thoriteā€“xenotimeā€“zirconā€“coffinite H.-J. FoĢˆrster * University...intermediate solid solutions of the tetragonal thoriteā€“xenotimeā€“zirconā€“coffinite mineral group with partially...leucogranites of either I- or A-type affinity. Thorite from the Erzgebirge contained up to 18.8 wt.% Y2O3...exist between thorite and xenotime, thorite and coffinite, and Yā€“HREE-bearing thorite and zircon. Complex...zircon and xenotime, and anhydrous zircon and thorite, are not observed and are in conflict with experimental
Catalog/List
COMPANY 2 Fl/R. ADAMITE A basic arsenate of zinc Mexico Durango, Mapimi, Mina Ojuela ~enish-gray to reddish-brown...crystalled on limonit'e ...................... . Mexico Durango, Mapimi, Mina Ojuela White to very pale...crystal groups on limonite .................. . Mexico Durango, Mapimi, Mina Ojuela ~lliant lime-yellow...on limonite ....... . Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine --=.rransparent micro crystals on...Copper aluminum silicate' Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings on
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Accepted Manuscript The thorite mineralization in the Madeira Sn-Nb-Ta world-class deposit (Pitinga,... Bastos Neto, N.F. Botelho, V.P. Pereira, The thorite mineralization in the Madeira Sn-Nb-Ta world-class...disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. The thorite mineralization in the Madeira Sn-Nb-Ta world-class...Sn-Nb-Ta Madeira deposit is located in the Pitinga mine (northern Brazil). The deposit is associated with...facies of the A-type Madeira Granite (~1,820 Ma). The mine commercially extracts tin (cassiterite), Nb and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
uraninite, coffinite, saleeite, meta-saleeite, and thoriteā€”and U-bearing mineralsā€”such as xenotime, monazite...to 84.0 wt. % UO2 in the cores of the crystals. Thorite was found in all of the granite samples, and its...10.4 wt. % UO2 . Some thorite seemed to be primary, whereas the other thorite was related to the granite...fractures of several minerals. In the altered granite, thorite had low UO2 contents (0.46 wt. %) in the fractured...alteration of apatite, and were frequently replaced by thorite. Monazite and xenotime from the altered granite
 
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