New Mexico Geology — Back-issues
Print ISSN: 0196-948X (prior to 2015)
Online ISSN: 2837-6420
Volume: 37, 2015
Number: 3
Full-Issue (15.0 MB PDF)
Cover Image: Carbonatite dike, Lemitar Mountains, Socorro County, New Mexico
— Virginia T McLemore
The cover image taken by Virginia McLemore shows a Carbonatite dike (brown) intruding Proterozoic diorite in the Lemitar Mountains, Socorro County, New Mexico. The carbonatite has been dated by Ar/Ar methods as 517.7±0.7 Ma. REE are mined from large carbonatite plutons at Mountain Pass, California and Bayan Obo, Inner Mongolia, China.
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Rare Earth Elements (REE) Deposits in New Mexico: Update (4.62 MB PDF), pp. 59-69. [View Abstract]
— V. T Mclemore