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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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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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Open pit Molybdenum mine at Questa, Taos County, New Mexico, 1950-1960's
Open pit Molybdenum mine...  
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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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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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Winter at Questa molybdenum open pit mine, Questa, New Mexico
Winter at Questa...  
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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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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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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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Independence mine in the Red River district, New Mexico, 1905
Independence mine in the...  
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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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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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Adobe building at Picuris Pueblo, January 1989
Adobe building at Picuris...  
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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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Harding pegmatite near Harding Mine in northern NM. At the base of the pinnacle a thin portion of the wall zone, the massive quartz zone, and the spotted-rocl zone are exposed. Published in Scenic Tri
Harding pegmatite near...  
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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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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
On the west side of the...  
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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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Photo of Harding mine near Dixon, New Mexico, October 1979
Photo of Harding mine near...  
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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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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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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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Rural home in the Rio Pueblo valley illustrates Spanish Colonial floor plan with rooms in a single line. Near 7,700 ft in elevation, the pitched metal roof becomes important for shedding rain and snow
Rural home in the Rio...  
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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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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. Photo taken for Scenic Trip 2.
Harding quarry where years...  
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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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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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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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Sorting bins (?) and track at the Harding mine, Taos County, New Mexico, ca 1943
Sorting bins (?) and track...  
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Santa Fe Group sedimentary rocks near Dixon, New Mexico. Image found in Scenic Trip 2.
Santa Fe Group sedimentary...  
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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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Harding quarry where years of open-cut mining have exposed the main pegmatite body. The large opening is the entrance to the lepidolite room. Directly above the entrance are large laths of spodumene i
Harding quarry where years...  
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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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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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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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Office of the Molybdenum Corporation of America. Office is believed to have been be in Questa.
Office of the Molybdenum...  
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Rio Grande Gorge Bridge looking northeast. Image found in Scenic Trip 2.
Rio Grande Gorge Bridge...  
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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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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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Distant view of Questa, New Mexico. Photographed by R.H. Webe, ca 1952.
Distant view of Questa...  
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Burros standing beside small ditch alongside gravel road in northern New Mexico
Burros standing beside...  
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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. Photo taken for Scenic Trip 2.
Harding quarry where years...  
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Landslide scars in northern New Mexico
Landslide scars in...  
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Porter Irwin at Harding mine in Taos County, New Mexico, ca 1942-43.
Porter Irwin at Harding...  
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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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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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Frances and Dick Jahns at US Bureau Mines camp at the Harding mine, New Mexico, 1943
Frances and Dick Jahns at...