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A 25 lb powder box found in Bear Canyon workings, ca 1900.
A 25 lb powder box found...  
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Adobe building at Picuris Pueblo, January 1989
Adobe building at Picuris...  
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The dump (lower left) covers the portal of the early underground workings in Sulphur Gulch in 1951. Also pictured are the portals of Glory Hole workings (center), and the landslide at the head of Sul
The dump (lower left)...  
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Winter at Questa molybdenum open pit mine, Questa, New Mexico
Winter at Questa...  
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View upstream from Rio Grande Gorge Bridge. The six-man raft near the center of the photograph gives an idea of the canyon size. Image found in Scenic Trip 13.
View upstream from Rio...  
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Distant view of Questa, New Mexico. Photographed by R.H. Webe, ca 1952.
Distant view of Questa...  
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View south from the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge. The Picuris Mountains are on the skyline. Image found in Scenic Trip 2.
View south from the Rio...  
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Independence mine in the Red River district, New Mexico, 1905
Independence mine in the...  
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View of an ore bin and buildings at Harding pegmatite mine.
View of an ore bin and...  
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Aerial view to west-northwest of Questa Molybdenum mine, Red River Canyon, New Mexico Highway 38, and Questa mill of Molycorp in left foreground, ca 1960. Open pit mine in right background
Aerial view to...  
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A molybdenite vein in Moly Mine at Questa, New Mexico. Photographed by R.H. Webe, ca 1952.
A molybdenite vein in Moly...  
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View of the Harding pegmatite mine looking down from the hillside. Railroad tracks lead from the left down into the mine.
View of the Harding...  
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The U.S. Bureau of Mines pays a visit to the Moly mine at Questa, New Mexico, August, 1924. Model T Ford Pickup ragtop ca. 1920-24
The U.S. Bureau of Mines...  
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View of the southern face of the Harding prospect pit. Four zones of the pegmatite are exposed here: border rind, wall zone, cleavandlite zone, and quartz-lath spodumene zone. Image found in Scenic Tr
View of the southern face...  
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Sulphur Gulch in 1951. Dump (lower left) covers the portal of the early underground workings. The open pit now covers much of the area. Image found in Scenic Trip 2.
Sulphur Gulch in 1951....  
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Roadcut on NM-64 near Palo Flechado Pass. Outcrop is Pennyslvanian limestone, shale, and sandstone with marine fossils. Image found in Scenic Trip 2.
Roadcut on NM-64 near Palo...  
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Open pit Molybdenum mine at Questa, Taos County, New Mexico, 1950-1960's
Open pit Molybdenum mine...  
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View of F.E. Schundler + Co. No Agua mill. View is looking West-North West from the open pit mine, Taos, New Mexico, February 1953.
View of F.E. Schundler +...  
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View of F.E. Schundler + Co. No Agua mill. View is looking West-North West from the open pit mine, Taos, New Mexico, February 1953.
View of F.E. Schundler +...  
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F.E. Schundler + Co. No Agua mill and open pit mine. View is looking east along the access road, Taos, New Mexico, February 1953.
F.E. Schundler + Co. No...  
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Photo of Harding mine near Dixon, New Mexico, October 1979
Photo of Harding mine near...  
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F.E. Schundler + Co. No Agua mill and open pit mine. View is looking east along the access road, Taos, New Mexico, February 1953.
F.E. Schundler + Co. No...  
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U.S.G.S. vehicle at Harding mine in Taos County, New Mexico, ca 1942-1943
U.S.G.S. vehicle at...  
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Steam house at Questa, ran by Molybdenum Corporation of America.
Steam house at Questa...  
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Valley of the Rio Pueblo as seen from NM-518. Mesa at the far right is capped with Vadito basalt. Image found in Scenic Trip 2.
Valley of the Rio Pueblo...  
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Southeast Taos Plateau, Rio Grande Gorge, and Sangre de Cristo range; Rio Grande Gorge bridge is at lower right. View is to the southeast. Image found in Scenic Trip 13.
Southeast Taos Plateau...  
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Truchas Peaks are visible straight ahead entering the village of Pensaco, New Mexico Image found in Scenic Trip 2.
Truchas Peaks are visible...  
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Sulphur Gulch showing W level dump (lower left), landslide covering portals of Glory Hole workings (center), and the altered area at the head of Sulphur Gulch (treeless area, upper right). Photo is
Sulphur Gulch showing W...  
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On the west side of the gorge, near river level, black basalt rests on alluvial-fan gravels. The gravel, once at the land surface, was covered by the molten lava flow and baked brick red. Image fo
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Harding quarry where years of open-cut mining have exposed the main pegmatite body. The dark Precambrian country rock appears in stark contrast to the pegmatite body. Image from Scenic Trip 2
Harding quarry where years...  
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Taos Plaza. Taos Pueblo was first settled in 1617 and then abandoned circa 1692. It was later resettled by mounatin men between 1815-1837. Notable individuals to call Taos home were, Kit Carson, Ch
Taos Plaza. Taos Pueblo...  
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Office of the Molybdenum Corporation of America. Office is believed to have been be in Questa.
Office of the Molybdenum...  
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A view fro Calcite (Iceland) Spar looking south-east and showing location of Harding mine, where spur was produced in 1930-1940. Picture was taken prior to commencement of any operations by Calspar M
A view fro Calcite...  
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Frances and Dick Jahns at US Bureau Mines camp at the Harding mine, New Mexico, 1943
Frances and Dick Jahns at...  
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Plastered adobe torreon near Talpa may be the only one remaining today in New Mexico. It reputedly had a hexagonal second story constructed of logs. Torreon is Spanish for "large defense tower", duri
Plastered adobe torreon...  
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Unidentified miner at the Moly Corporation office building, ca 1955
Unidentified miner at the...  
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Gretchen Hoffman and elk damage was a "hit and a miss." The vehicle was damaged in the line of duty for a NMGS field trip.
Gretchen Hoffman and elk...  
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Photo and index map of Taos Plateau and northern Espanola Valley region. Published in Scenic Trips to the Geological Past No. 13.
Photo and index map of...  
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Porter Irwin, Frances Jahns, Lauren Wright, and Dick Jahns at Harding mine, New Mexico, 1943.
Porter Irwin...  
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Harding pegmatite with detail of large laths of spudumene in the quarry wall below and the the right of the figure. The contact between the pegmatite and the overlying dark country rock is at the top
Harding pegmatite with...  
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U. S. Bureau of Mines geologists, Waldemar Schaller, Dick Jahns, and Lauren Wright at Harding mine, New Mexico, 1943
U. S. Bureau of Mines...  
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Old Dixon store constructed of river-rounded quartzite boulders of the Precambrian Ortega Formation. Corrugated galvanized steel roofing is common in rural northern New Mexico. Image found in Scenic T
Old Dixon store...  
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Sulphur Gulch showing W level dump (lower left), landslide covering portals of Glory Hole workings (center), and the altered area at the head of Sulphur Gulch (treeless area, upper right). Photo is
Sulphur Gulch showing W...  
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Hadley Rille, Apollo 15 site on the moon. Astronaut Jim Irwin stows rock samples while Dave Scott takes final photographs of sampling area. Hadley Rille and the Rio Grande Gorge (mile 11.8, Taos-Espa
Hadley Rille...  
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Harding mine, Taos County, New Mexico, ca 1943
Harding mine, Taos County...  
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Church of Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos, built in 1928, in the plaza of Rio Chiquito (now Talpa). Image found in Scenic Trip 2.
Church of Our Lady of San...  
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Landslide scars in northern New Mexico near Questa.
Landslide scars in...  
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Scaffolding and piping at Questa, ran by Molybdenum Corporation of America.
Scaffolding and piping at...