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Pajarito Mining District | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location23 - 24S, 12E6 Mineral ProductsAg, Pb, Au, Cu-, Zn-, U- (As, F, Mo, V, Hg, Mn)6 GeologyRelatively small area of irregular and lensing fissure veins containing spotty argentiferous galena, pyrite, marcasite, and traces of chalcopyrite, sphalerite, arsenopyrite, cinnabar, wulfenite, vanadinite, fluorite, and locally pitchblende. Oxidation and super gene enrichment produced angelsite, cerussite, agentite, native silver and rich gold pockets. Mineralization replaces gouge and altered wall rock or fills fractures in Cretaceous quartz latite volcanics.6 Types of operation and productionRelatively shallow shaft, adits and open cuts. Worked since mid-1800's when high grade silver pockets mined. Total estimated and reported production would be some 1,000 tons of ore containing about 41,000 oz. of silver, 159 tons of lead, 216 oz. of gold and 2.5 tons of copper and a few hundred pounds of zinc. A small amount of picked uranium ore was shipped.6.
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