Preliminary Evaluation of the Mineral Resource Potential of the Sierra Ladrones Wilderness Study Area, Socorro County, New Mexico.

摘要

This New Mexico Bureau of Mines Open-file ReporNto. 179 represents a partial revision of the final BLM report. The only significant change incorporated in this open-file report is in the recognition that the apparent potential for commercial resources of uranium and base metals in the Ladron Mountains must actually exist int wo different types of mineral deposit (e.g. as stratiform base metal sulfide deposits in metamorphic and possibly as metamorphosed sandstone-uranium deposits or uranium mineralization in granites). In the original report these possible resources were assumed to occur in a single type of deposit, which tendedt o increase their estimated economic potential. Minor changes in organization and syntax have been made in the interest of clarity.