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Grant County Fluorspar Prospect

Past Producer in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Fluorine-Fluorite
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10009968
MRDS ID D003289
Record type Site
Current site name Grant County Fluorspar Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.41395, 32.40762 (WGS84)
Elevation 1699
Relative position ABOUT 27 MILES S 17 W OF SILVER CITY.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

C Bar Ranch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lordsburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Animas Valley(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 022S 015W 08 NW New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION AS SHOWN ON USGS MISCELLANEOUS FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-1039.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.41395, 32.40762
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N 15 TO 25 W
    Dip 60 NE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Stuctural Control.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Bound Ranch District

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner State Of New Mexico
    Home office New Mexico

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1978 CONSISTED OF A SHALLOW SHAFT AND NUMEROUS TRENCHES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-78 Lawrence,V. A. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-JUL-82 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

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