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Check lists of minerals for mining districts and other localities near Albuquerque Stuart A. Northrop, 1961, pp. 172-174 in: Albuquerque Country, Northrop, S. A.; [ed.], New Mexico Geological Society 12th Annual Fall Field Conference Guidebook, 199 p.

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Check Lists of Minerals for Mining Districts and Other Localities Near Albuquerque

STUART A. NORTHROP University of New Mexico

Most of these records of occurrence are taken from the Magnetite Quartz writers ( 1959) "Minerals of New Mexico." Mineral oc- Microcline Si!limonite currences of unusual interest are indicated by an exclama- Muscovite e Sericite Tenorite tion mark (!); exceptional occurrences are indicated by two Orthoclase Tourmaline such marks (!!). Plagioclase Zircon BERNALILLO COUNTY Albite Zoisite Tijeras Canyon Mining District Oligoclase This is a large district located in the southern Sandia Pyroxene Cerro Colorado Mountains, Manzanita Mountains, and northern Manzano Mountains. Subdistricts and synonyms include Carnuel, This is a small volcano west of Albuquerque near U. S. Coyote, Coyote Basin, Coyote Canyon, Coyote Springs, Hell Highway 66 bridges across the Rio Puerco. Canyon, Soda Springs, Sandia (in part), Star, and Star Barite Orthoclase Biotite Sonidine Canyon. Carnotite(?) Plagioclase Anglesite Malachite Chlorite Labradorite Microcline Anhydrite Cristobalite Pyroxene Argentite Mol ybden ite Hematite Quartz Azurite Mottramite(?) Hornblende Agate Barite!! Muscovite Magnetite Chalcedony Biotite Sericite Muscovite Uranium minerals Nickel minerals Bornite !Sericite Calcite Orthoclase Tufa Plagioclase Modern Sands of the Rio Grande Valley Cha l cocite La brado ri te Chalcopyrite Pyrite The following minerals occur in modern river sands of Chlorite Pyromorphite the Rio Grande valley in Bernalillo, Sandoval, Socorro, and Copper Pyroxene Cuprite QQuartzu a Valencia Counties. Descloizite, var. Chalcedony Andalusite Magnetite Cuprodescloizite Flint and chert Apatite Monazite Epidotel Jasper Barite Muscovite Feldspar Siderite Biotite Pyroxene Fluoritell Si!limonite Calcite Quartz Galena Silver (9) Diopside Rutile Garnet Silver minerals Enstatite Sillimanite Gold Smithsonite Epidote Sphene Placer gold Sphalerite Feldspar Spinel Graphite Sphene Garnet Staurolite Gypsum Strontianite Hornblende Topaz Hematite Tin minerals Hypersthene Tourmaline Hornblende Tourmaline Ilmenite Zircon I lmenitel Uranium minerals Kyanite Zoisite "Limonite" Witherite(?) Leucoxene" Ocher Zircon Magnetite Miscellaneous Localities In addition to the minerals listed above, recent petro- Barite Opal, var. graphic work on the Precambrian rocks of the Tijeras Can- Calcitel Wood-opal Celestite Orthoclase yon area (Bruns, 1959; Lodewick, 1960; accompanying Clinochlore Microperthite Guidebook paper by J. P. Fitzsimmons) has yielded the Clinozoisite Penninite following minerals: Cummingtonite(?) Plagioclase Actinol ite Plagioclase Epidote Labradorite Amphibole Albite Fluorite Quartz Apatite Andesine Garnet Agatized wood Augite Oligoclase Gold Flint and chert Diopside Rutile Gypsum Jasper Kaolinite Tremolite Selenite Resin Kyanite Zoisite, var. Hematite Riebeckite Penninite Saussurite Hornblende Rutile Juan Tabo Area Kaolinite. Serpentine, var. Lepidomelene In northern Sandia Mountains, northeast of Alameda; Antigorite "Leucoxene" Silver minerals has been included in the Placitas district (of Sandoval "Limonite" Sphene County). Ocher Tellurium (/) Anthophyllite Enstatite Magnesite Tourmaline Biotite Epidote Muscovite] Zircon Chalcopyrite Garnet Sericite Zoisite Chlorite Hornblende Olivine Chrysocolla Kaolinite For Placitas mining district, see under Sandoval County. NEW MEXICO GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY c TWELFTH FIELD CONFERENCE 173

LOS ALAMOS COUNTY Placitas Mining District Aug ite Orthoclase Subdistricts and synonyms include Algodones, Berna- Biotite San idinel lillo, Peak, La Madera, Las Placitas, Montezuma, Celadonite Plagioclase Cristobalite Quartz and Sandia (in part). Hematite Hornblende Saponite Anglesite Specularite Hypersthene Tridymite Azurite Ilmenite I dd ing site" Barite Calcite "Limonite" McKINLEY COUNTY Tufa and travertine Magnetite (in sand) For uran ium minerals of the Grants district of McKinley Dripstone, Mexican onyx Malachite and Valencia Counties, see paper by A. Rosenzweig, this Cerargyrite Pyrite Guidebook. Chalcopyrite Quartz Flint and chert SANDOVAL COUNTY Fluorite Galena! Silver Cochiti Mining District Garnet (in sand ) Silver minerals Also known as Albemarle, Bland, and Peralta Canyon. Gold Zircon (in sand ) Argentite Opal Placer gold Arson° pyrite (?) Hyalite Gypsum Aug ite Precious opal Selenite Biotite Wood-opal Cabezon Area Bromyrite Orthoclase Aragonite Plagioclase Carnotite Sanidinel Augitel I La bradorite Chalcopyrite Plagioclase Calcite! Quartz Chlorite 01 igoclase Diopside Serpentine Cuprite Pyrite Dolomite Antigorite (?) Dickite Quartz En sta tile Ba stile Dufrenite (?) Chalcedony Olivine! Spinel Euclase (?) Siderite Galena Sphalerite Miscellaneous Localities Gold Sphene Especially in the Jemez Plateau or the San Juan Basin. Hematite Steven site Alunogen Opal Specula rite Stibnite (?) Analci me Diatomite Hornblende Tellurium minerals Apatite Wood-opal "Limonite" Tourmaline Aragonite! Orthoclase Magnetite "Wad" Autunite Moonstone) Malachite Zircon Biotite Plagioclase Muscovite, var. Calcite Albite Sericite Anthraconite Anorthile Jemez Springs Mining District Tufa and travertine! Bytownite Carnotite La bradorite! Includes the Spanish Queen mine and Soda Dam. Celadonite Oligoclase Azurite Hematite Chabazite Psilomelanel Barite "Limonite" Coffin ite Pyrite Calcite! Malachite) Cristobal ite Quartz Tufa and travertinel Muscovite Gypsum Agatized wood! Oolites and pisol ites I Pyrite Satin spar Flint and chert Chabazite Quartz Selenite Jasper Chokocite Agatized wood Hornblende Resin Copper Flint and chert Hypersthene Saponite Cove! I ite Tenorite, var. "Iddingsite" Serpentine (?) Feldspar Melaconite (?) Kaolinite Siderite Gold Uranium minerals Magnetite! Tridymite Gypsum, var. Manganoan magnetite Uranium minerals Selenite Manganese minerals "Wad"! Jemez Sulfur Mining District Natrolite Wheelerite (type)II Also known as Otero Sulphur Springs, San Diego Sul- Olivine Zircon phur, Sulfur Springs, Sulphur Springs; includes a small area SANTA FE COUNTY near Battleship Rock. Cerrillos Mining District Calcite Opal Subdistricts and synonyms include Bonanza City, Car- Tufa Hyalite bonateville, Galisteo, Galisteo Creek, Hungry Gulch, Los Cristobalite Wood-opal) Dufrenite Quartz Cerrillos, Mount Chalchihuitl, Turquesa, Turquois, and Tur- Hornblende quoise (City, Hill). Flint and chert Allan ite Chlorite Sulfurl I Ana lcime Chrysocolla (?) Nacimiento Mountains Mining District An kerite Covell ite Subdistricts and synonyms include Copper City, Cuba, Apatite Dolomite Nacimiento, San Miguel, Senorito, Sierra Nacimiento. Argentite Epidote Azurite Ja ros ite Aug ite Feldspar Born ite "Limonite" Azurite Fluorite Cerussite Malachite! Barite Gahnite Chalcocitel Pyrite Biotite Galena! Chrysocol la Quartz Bournonite Gold Copper Agate Brornyrite Placer gold Cove! I ite Flint and chert Calcite Gypsum Cuprite Sphalerite Manganoan calcite Selenite Feldspar Tenorite, var. Cerargyrite Halloysite Gypsum! Melaconite Cerussite Hematite Selenite Uranium minerals Chalcanthite Specularite Hematite Vivianite, var. Chalcocite Hornblende Hornblende Odontolite (?) Chalcopyrite Ilmenite 174 NEW MEXICO GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY TWELFTH FIELD CONFERENCE

Kaolinite Jasper Pyrrhotite Tellurium minerals "Limonite"! Rutile Quartz!! Tenorite, var. Magnetite Serpentine Flint and chert Me!aconite Malachite Siderite Rosasite Tetrahedrite Melanterite Spherosiderite Scheelite Tourmaline Muscovite Silver Siderite Trentolite Sericite Smithsonite! Silver Nepheline Sodalite Smithsonite Wolframite Olivine Spholeritell Sphalerite Wol lastonite Opal Sphene Talc Zoisite Stibnite Orthoclase Specimen from the Carnahan mine donated by Sherman P. Marsh, Microperthite Talc Tetrahedrite June, 1960. Sanidine In addition to the minerals listed above, the follow- Plagioclase Tourmaline! Proustite(?) Turquoislll ing are cited by Atkinson (1960): Pyrargyrite (?) Uranium minerals Apatite Plagioclase Pyrite Vanadinite Augite Andesine Pyroxene Copper Labradorite Quartz Wulfenite Goethite Quartz Amethyst Xanthoconite Hemimorphite Amethyst Chalcedony Zircon Serpentine Sphene In addition to the minerals listed above, Disbrow and Old Placers Mining District Stoll (1957) recorded the following: Montmorillonite, Psilomelane This district, located in the Ortiz Mountains, has been as Bentonite Rhodochrosite known as Dolores, El Real de Dolores, Lone Mountain, Or- Plagioclase "Wad", as tiz, Ortiz Mountain, Rio Galisteo (in part), Sierra del Oro, Andesine Manganese oxides Sierra Obscura, and The Placer. La Bajada Mining District Aegirite (?) Hornblende Marcasite! Analcime Apatite Idocrose Melanterite! Augite Argentite Ilmenite "Mineral Autunite gel" Arsenopyrite Kaolinite Nepheline Asphaltitel Augite "Limonite" Olivine Azurite Bornitel Magnetite Barite Opal Calcite Malachite Orthoclase Biotite Chalcopyrite Molybdenite Plagioclase Bornite Chlorite Muscovite Pyrite Brannerite Copper Sericite Pyroxene Butlerite Epidote Nepheline Quartz Calcite Feldspar Olivine Chalcedony Mexican onyx Galena Pyrite Serpentine Chalcocite Garnet Quartz Siderite Chalcopyrite! Pyrope Scheelite! Sphalerite Colusite Gold Siderite Sulfur Copiapite Placer goldl Sphene Thorium minerals Crednerite Hematite Talc Uranium minerals Halotrichite Specularite Wollastonite Hydronephelite Voltaite "Iddingsite" Wurtzilite(?) In addition to the minerals listed above, recent petro- Malachite Zeolites graphic work on the rocks of the Ortiz Mountains (McRae, New Placers Mining District 1958; Peterson, 1958) has yielded the following: This district, located in the San Pedro Mountains, has a Actinolite Penninite Uralite Plagioclase large number of subdistricts and synonyms, such as Carna- Allanite(?) Andesine han, Golden, Lazarus Gulch, Placer del Tuerto, Real de San Biotite Labradorite Francisco, San Isidro, San Lazaro, San Pedro, San Ysidro Calcite Quartz Mountains, San Zaro, Silver Butte, Tuerto Mountain, and Travertine Chert Diopside(?) Trernolite Tuertos Range. Leucite(?) Zircon Alabandite Grossularite "Leucoxene" Zoisite Anglesitel Gold! Orthoclase Saussurite Argentite Placer gold! Auricholcite Goslarite VALENCIA COUNTY Azurite! Gypsum For uranium minerals of the Grants and Laguna min- Barite Hematite ing districts, see paper by A. Rosenzweig, this Guidebook. Biotite Specularitel REFERENCES Bornitel Hornblende Calcite! Idocrase Atkinson, W. W., Jr., 1960, Geology of the San Pedro Mountains, Papierspath Kaolinite Santa Fe County, New Mexico: Univ. New Mexico unpub. masters Cerargyrite "Limonite" thesis, 81 p. Cerussitel Ocher Bruns, J. J., 1959, Petrology of the Tijeras greenstone, Bernalillo County, Chalcanthitel Magnetite New Mexico: Univ. New Mexico unpub. masters thesis, 119 p. Chalcocite Malachite!! Disbrow, A. E., and Stoll, W. C., 1957, Geology of the Cerrillos area, Santa Fe County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bur. Mines and ChalcopyriteII Marcasite Mineral Res. Bull. 48, 73 p. Chlorite Melanterite Lodewick, R. B., 1960, Geology and petrography of the Tijeras gneiss, Chrysocolla Minium Bernalillo County, New Mexico: Univ. New Mexico unpub. masters Cuprite Molybdenite thesis, 63 p. Diopside Muscovite Epidote Sericite McRae, 0. M., 1958, Geology of the northern part of the Ortiz Moun- tains, Santa Fe County, New Mexico: Univ. New Mexico unpub. Bucklandite Orthoclase Feldspar! Adularial masters thesis, 112 p. Northrop, S. A., 1959, Minerals of New Mexico, rev. ed.: Albuquerque, Fluorite Plagioclase Galenal Albite Univ. New Mexico Press, xvi, 665 p. Peterson, J. W., 1958, Geology of the southern part of the Ortiz Garnet Pyrite! Mountains, Santa Fe County, New Mexico: Univ. New Mexico Almandite Pyrolusite Andraditell Polianite unpub. masters thesis, 115 p.