Deposit

Gallinas Mountains Project

Gallinas Mountains Project is a rare earth occurrence in New Mexico, recorded in the USGS USMIN rare earth element occurrence database (ver. 4.0, June 2019).

Facts on this page last re-verified Aug 12, 2026 — the oldest verification date among its current claims. How we verify.

Location: New Mexico, United States (34.212, -105.759 approx.)

Commodities: rare earth elements

Deposit model: F-Cu-REE veins · unclassified

Geology

The district's fluorite-copper-bastnasite deposits are interpreted to result from epithermal (relatively low temperature) mineralization related to intrusion of the alkaline trachyte. (Long and others (2010))

Record imported from USGS USMIN ver. 4.0 (June 2019). Developments after that date appear on facility records, not here; see the methodology.

Sources

U.S. Geological Survey · published Jun 1, 2019 · retrieved Aug 12, 2026 · archive unavailable: Wayback snapshot 20260427015518 of the ScienceBase item exists but the archive service returned 503 on verification 2026-08-12; recheck on a weekly pass