Sediments from Alaskite, Capitan Mountain, New Mexico

Mineral and water resources of New Mexico

“…A sample of ore from the Council Rock district in Socorro County assayed 59.4 percent iron and 10 percent titanium. Sidwell (1946) studied river sand, which was derived from the Capitan Mountain alaskite in Lincoln County, that contains an unusually high concentration of anatase. Provenance studies in the Middle Rio Grande Valley indicate that sand from Santa Fe Creek contains about 10 percent heavy minerals, of which 40 percent is ilmenite (Rittenhouse, 1944, p. 163).…”