Uranium-Bearing Nickel-Cobalt-Native Silver Deposits, Black Hawk District, Grant County, New Mexico

• Main Authors: Gillerman, Elliot, Whitebread, Donald Harvey
• Other Authors: Geological Survey (U.S.), U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: United States. Government Printing Office. 1956
• Subjects: Uranium ores > New Mexico > Grant County; Mines and mineral resources; Uranium ores; Canada; Great Bear Lake
• Online Access: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc304430/

From abstract: The ore deposits are in fissue veins that contain silver, nickel, cobalt, and uranium minerals. The ore minerals, which include native silver, argentite, niccolite, millerite, skutterudite, nickel skutterudite, bismuthinite, pitchblende, and sphalerite, are in a carbonate gangue in narrow, persistent veins, most of which trend northeast. Pitchblende has been identified in the Black Hawk and the Alhambra deposits and unidentified radioactive minerals were found at five other localities. The deposits that contain the radioactive minerals constitute a belt 600 to 1,500 feet wide that trends about N. 450 E. and is approximately parallel to the southeastern boundary of the monzonite porphyry stock. All the major ore deposits are in the quartz diorite gneiss close to the monzonite porphyry. The ore deposits are similar to the deposits at Great Bear Lake, Canada, and Joachimsthal, Czechoslovakia.