| McLemore, Virginia T., Donahue, Kelly, Breese, Michael, Jackson, Meghan I., Arbuckle, Jeffrey, Jones, Glen (2001) Introduction to mineral-resource assessment of Luna County, New Mexico. Open-file Report 459. New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources doi:10.58799/ofr-459 | Report (issue) | mining districts in the county. The Cooke’s Peak district ranks 5th in lead production in the state and...and 9th in zinc production and the Victorio district ranks 7th in lead production in the state. Native Americans...miners in New Mexico and used local sources of hematite and clay for pigments, and obsidian and chert...in the Fremont district about 1860 and in the Florida Mountains and Cooke’s Peak district about 1876. This...lead-zinc-silver deposits in the Cooke’s Peak district in 1876, which yielded approximately $3 million | | | Book (edition) | together with the name of the county in which the district is located. In perusing the older literature,...has to spend some time in determining to which district a certain reference applies. Attention is here...each district on the map is added to the entry in the list to facilitate locating the district. HIGHLIGHTS...(rock) Onyx Alabaster Petrified Selenite Hematite Picrolite Red ocher Sulfur Reddle Talc Steatite...gypsum, and calcite; and pigments of azurite, hematite, and malachite. Perhaps most intriguing were a |
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