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Petaca District

Petaca District 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 (36.506, -106.054 approx.)

Commodities: mica; niobium; tantalum; beryllium; quartz; feldspar; kyanite; rare earth elements; uranium; tin; thorium; copper; bismuth; fluorine; molybdenum; asbestos; pyrophyllite; garnet

Exploration and site history

Discovery — No data on discovery, 1870 (McLemore (2017))

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