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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Lepidolite' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz9 photos of Lepidolite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Microlite Group8 photos of Lepidolite associated with Microlite Group at this locality.
Albite7 photos of Lepidolite associated with Albite at this locality.
Fluorcalciomicrolite5 photos of Lepidolite associated with Fluorcalciomicrolite at this locality.
Zircon5 photos of Lepidolite associated with Zircon at this locality.
Spodumene4 photos of Lepidolite associated with Spodumene at this locality.
Apatite4 photos of Lepidolite associated with Apatite at this locality.
Muscovite2 photos of Lepidolite associated with Muscovite at this locality.
Fluorapatite2 photos of Lepidolite associated with Fluorapatite at this locality.
Amazonite1 photo of Lepidolite associated with Amazonite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Lepidolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Harding Mine, Picuris District, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:84247
Long-form Identifier:1:3:84247:9
GUID (UUID V4):a8d3eb4a-8fe0-4c1d-ae1c-37674ff73c77
Nearest other occurrences of Lepidolite
8.0km (5.0 miles) Fletcher Canyon, Glenwoody District, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
36.0km (22.4 miles) Globe pegmatite (Globe Mine), South Petaca, Petaca Mining District, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, USA
41.7km (25.9 miles) Pidlite deposit, Mora County, New Mexico, USA
66.7km (41.5 miles) Hematite Creek, Elizabethtown Mining District, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colfax County, New Mexico, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MINES STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES PIT AT HARDING MINE (To left...dump) DUMP AT HARDING MINE (To right of pit) BULLETIN 13 FRONTISPIECE NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MINES...Features of the Pegmatites of Taos and Rio Arriba Counties, New Mexico By EVAN JUST SOCORRO, N. M....-------- 7 PART I. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE PICURIS AND PETACA AREAS -- 9 Topography and geography...----------------------------- 18 PART II. THE PICURIS AREA ------------------------------------------------------------
Report (issue)
BULLETIN 71 Mineral Resources of Taos County, New Mexico by JOHN H. SCHILLING Description of mineral...RESOURCES NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE...Burroughs ...........................Governor of New Mexico Tom Wiley .................................................... Albuquerque For sale by the New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Campus Station......................................... Northern Taos Range .........................................
Book (edition)
to cast their shadow on the land. Ruth K. Hall New Mexico Magazine, September 1958 Fairy slipper orchid...Red columbine (Aquilegia triternata). Thistle, New Mexico thistle, or Bull thistle (Cirsium neomexicanum)...species in New Mexico, prefer the cooler and wetter, forested mountains. Teasel and New Mexico thistle are...Adams, Taos Photographic Laboratory, © 1991. Scenic Trips to the Geologic Past No. 2 New Mexico Bureau...DIVISION OF NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY The enchanted circle— loop drives from Taos by Paul
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)
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 (issue)
Antimony-bearing Oxidized Minerals from the Jetty Mine, Anaconda, Montana Frank Dudás (foldudas@verizon...two notes documenting the mineralogy of the Jetty Mine, near Anaconda, Montana (Figure 1), focuses on the...report on the sulfides and sulfosalts of the Jetty Mine appeared in Mineral News last year (Dec., 2021)...antimony-bearing secondary minerals. The Silver Reef Mine north of Garrison produced material that was characterized...2) A Favorite Specimen From the Harding Mine, Taos Co., New Mexico Bob Werner – werner@lcturbonet.com
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
identity with johannite. PURPLE MUSCOVITE FROM NEW MEXICO* Waropuan T. Scnarrnn eNo Eowano P. HBNtBnsoN"...striking color effects occurs abundantly in northern New Mexico as a constituent of pegmatite dikes. The purple...southwestern Taos County, New Mexico, in R. 11 E., T.23 N., about sixteen miles SSW of the city of Taos and about...The purple muscovite is most abundant at the Harding mine which lies about nine and one half miles drie...thirteen miles as traveled. The mine is about half way between Picuris and Barranca. A deeper colored
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 © 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)
ICELAND SPAR IN NEW MEXICO VrNcnur C. Knr.r.nv, Llniaersity oJ New Merico, Albuquerque,New Me*ico. Drscovpnv...prospecting the ridge south of the Harding mine, Juan A. Brown of Dixon, New Mexico, uneartheda calcitedepositbeneathtwo...Copper Mountain Mining District in Section 31,'I 23 N, R 11 E, Taos Countv, New Mexico. It is held under the...owned by Juan A. Brown and H. H. Bailey of Dixon, New Mexico. This claim lies parallel to and just south of...of the Lilac 1 on which is located the Harding mine, producer in the past of trimmed mica, Iepidolite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THIILITE IN NEW MEXICO Sruenr A. Nonrnnov, IJniversity oJ I{eu Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Since thulite...and at Haddam, Connecticut,2 its occurrence in New Mexico is worthy of record. Thule is an ancient name...The new locality is just south of Pilar Post Ofice (village formerly known as Cieneguilla), Taos County...County, New Mexico, approximately in the N.E. f Sec.2, T. 23 N., R. 11 E., on the eastbank of the Rio Grande...northwestward. The main highway between Santa Fe and Taos lies at the foot of the cliff along the east bank
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Be-bearing mica from the Harding pegmatite (Dixon, Taos County, New Mexico, USA) has been investigated...sample of Li,Be-rich mica from Harding Mine, Taos County, New Mexico (kindly provided by the ‘‘Museo...Middlesex Co., Connecticut, USA; Harding pegmatite, Dixon, Taos Co., New Mexico; Huron claims, Point du Bois...and mineralogy The Harding pegmatite is located in the western part of the Picuris Range about 20 miles...of Taos, New Mexico. In 1974, the pegmatite mine was leased by the owner to the University of New Mexico
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Norway; Harding pegmatite, New Mexico, U.S.A.; Tanco pegmatite, Manitoba, Canada; Kiawa pegmatite, New Mexico...up to 2.0%0 between pegmatite dikes in San Diego County, California, U.S.A., can also be explained by exchange...in this paper, and the location of the San Diego County pegmatites (B.E. Taylor et aI., 1979). 129 localities...pegmatite district, southern Norway; Harding pegmatite and Kiawa pegmatite groups, northern New Mexico, U.S...grouped as Lipoor (Evje-Iveland district, Norway; Kiawa pegmatites, New Mexico, and Crestmore pegmatite, southern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
criteria: toba, and the Hardingpegmatitenear Dixon, New Mexico,andpresentsa discussion of the potentialuse 1...only as a metasomatic ium-richpegmatitesis not a new concept.Hornung mineralin the alteredwall rockscloseto...Alteration of mafic wall rocksto holmquistite district,Zimbabwe,and suggested that holmquistite occursduringthe...Trueman and mulationsof amblygonite-montebrasite or lepidolite- •ern•, 1982).Notsince thepublications ofHornung...mosteconomicLi-Be-Sn-Tadeposits,the Harding pegmatite,New Mexico (Jahnsand Ewing, 1977), and the Greenbushespegmatite
Journal (issue)
SwitZ6rl3nd , photomicrography: Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York Famous Mineral Localities —The Pulsifer Quarry...................78 by Pete J. Dunn The snowbird Mine, Montana’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
Report (issue)
30 PreCambrian Geology of the Picuris Range, northcentral New Mexico BY ARTHUR MONTGOMERY STATE BUREAU...RESOURCES NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE...Edwin L. Mechem …………………………………………………Governor of New Mexico Tom Wiley ……………………………………………………………...Superintendent...Plate 3. Picuris range from northeast. VIEW IS FROM A POINT SEVERAL MILES NORTH OF TAOS, PICURIS PEAK IS...Quaternary rocks ………………………………………………………………………………………….52 Picuris tuff ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………52
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
is the youngest mica to form, even following lepidolite. Indices of refraction are lower than those of...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
Report (issue)
and Taos Counties, New Mexico by U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Bureau of Mines, and New Mexico Bureau...Fe, San Miguel, Mora, Rio Arriba, and Taos Counties, New Mexico By Robert H. Moench, U.S. Geological Survey...Survey, and James M. Robertson, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Chapter B. Geological...and Taos Counties, New Mexico By Robert H. Moench, U.S. Geological Survey, James M. Robertson, New Mexico...Fe, San Miguel, Mora, Rio Arriba, and Taos Counties, New Mexico By Michael E. Lane, U.S. Bureau of Mines
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
paragonite, glauconite, phlogopite, biotite, lepidolite, zinnwaldite, margarite, and clintonite, while...whole was imperfect. Recently, the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names of the International Mineralogical...once that many familiar names such as biotite, lepidolite, and zinnwaldite do not appear in the tables...Muscovite crystals forming a 10-cm rosette, Jose Pinto mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Table 3. Interlayer-deficient... micas with compositions defined in table 3. Lepidolite: trioctahedral micas on, or close to, compositions
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
te, several species of mica (mostly known as lepidolite), and the tourmalines (elbaite, rossmanite, liddicoatite...Amblygonite Bikitaite Elbaite Eucryptite Holmquistite Lepidolite Liddicoatite Lithiophilite Montebrasite Petalite...is expressed by an abundance of muscovite or lepidolite and by the occurrence of other peraluminous minerals...evolve toward Fe-poor, Mnenriched pink to lavender lepidolite, which occurs rarely in large individual crystals... These have been collectively referred to as lepidolite. A working group of the International Mineralogical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DAVID M~ SEAMAN American Museum of Natural History, New York, N. Y. Photographs by Julius Weber, Mamaroneck...much less abundant than the cleavelandite and lepidolite save in the cores themselves which at times may...very late formed euhedral crystals of albite, lepidolite, colored tourmaline, beryl, apatite, topaz, fluorite...manganapatite; microlite; very minor amounts of cassiter- Lepidolite Icm-sh"aped growth inter-grown with c/eavelandite...fan-like, hemispherical growths of cleavelandite and lepidolite, probably of simultaneous deposition; a second
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DAVID M. SEAMAN American Museum of Natural History, New York City Article 8, Silica and Silicates (part three)...length at the quarries near Bedford and Overlook, New York; near Golden, Colorado and elsewhere. A fine...found at Fort Washington Avenue and 171st Street in New York City and is now in the American Museum of Natural...tourmaline crystal was noted in the Luella mine near Avon, Latah county, Idaho, which measured 3x3x8 feet. Other...Dakota. A black crystal from Micaville, Randolph county, Alabama, was 10 inches in diameter and from 3
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
response to loweredsolubilityof theseconstituents. Lepidolite,thoughprominentat some of thesecoremargins,...Mineralassemblages states j New England" Petaca, Black Hills, New Mexico SouthDakota i Plagiocl...Plagioclase-quartz-spodumene 7 Quartz-spodumene 8 Lepidolite-plagioclase-quartz 9 Quartz-microcline 10...lode X Punch X X X X X Old Mike Early lode New York Helen Beryl X X X X ? X X X X qua...Plagioclase-quartz-spodumene 7 Quartz-spodumene 8 Lepidolite-plagioclase-quartz ? 9 Quartz-microcline
Report (issue)
BULLETIN 39 The Metal Resources of New Mexico and Their Economic Features Through 1954 A revision of...RESOURCES NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE...THE HONORABLE EDWIN L. MECHEM………...Governor of New Mexico MRS. GEORGIA L. LUSK ......................Superintendent...Dealing With the Geology and Mineral Resources of New Mexico ...................................................................... 4 METAL RESOURCES OF NEW MEXICO.............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF LITHIUM-BEARING MORA COUNTY, NEW MEXTCO PEGMATITE, Rrcn.qno H. J,luNs, California...Mora County, New Mexico. Its major part, which is well exposed in surface and underground mine workings...characterized by an abundance of highiy soCic albite, lepidolite, and white to pink muscovite. Additional minerals...remarkably similar to that of at least two other lepidolite-bearing pegmatites in the southwestern United...evidence at hand, however, suggests that the lepidolite and other late-stage minerals are products of
 
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