Mirabal Fluorspar Mine

Past Producer in Cibola county in New Mexico, United States with commodities Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite
Sections on this page
  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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Production statistics
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012895
MRDS ID D008893
Record type Site
Current site name Mirabal Fluorspar Mine
Alternate or previous names Mirabal Mine 1946, Carnation-Columbine Prospect 1928: Claims, Miarabal Nos. 1 To 12
Related records 10198799

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.14174, 35.202 (WGS84)
Elevation 2469
Relative position ABOUT 18 MILES N 77 W OF GRANTS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cibola(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Post Office Flat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Zuni(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Gallup(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rio San Jose(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Elephant Butte(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Cibola National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Cibola

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 011N 012W 07,08 NE (07); NW (08) New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE MAIN WORKINGS OF THE MIRABAL MINE AS SHOWN ON THE POST OFFICE FLAT TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1952)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Fluorite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.14174, 35.202

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 80 W
    Dip VERTICAL
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 76.2M
    Width 19.81M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1918
Discoverer Moises Mirabal
Year of first production 1940
Year of last production 1952

Mining district

District name Zuni Mountains District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Alcoa - Aluminum Co. Of America
    First year 1958

Production statistics

  • Year 1940
    Period Pre 1940
    Accuracy Estimate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major CaF2 Ore Fluorine-Fluorite Fluorine 75wt-pct
  • Year 1952
    Period 1940 To 1952
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major CaF2 Ore Fluorine-Fluorite Fluorine 55wt-pct

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1944 AND SHOWN IN PLATE 19 OF NMBMMR BULL 21 CONSIST OF SEVERAL ADITS, A 65 FT. SHAFT, AND SEVERAL OPEN CUTS OR TRENCHES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, W.D., JR., 1928 NMBMMR BULL 4, P. 116-117

  • Deposit

    ROTHROCK, H.E., JOHNSON, C.H., AND HAHN, A.D., 1946 NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 179-183, P. 205-206

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966 USBM IC-8307, P. 127-130

  • Deposit

    GODDARD, E.N., 1966 USGS MAP I-454

  • Deposit

    MCANULTY, W.N., 1978 NMBMMR MEM 34, P. 54-56

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

  • Production

    WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966 USBM IC-8307, P. 127.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT CONSISTS OF TWO NEARLY PARALLEL SHEAR ZONES ABOUT 1350 FT. APART AND TRENDING APPROXIMATELY EAST-WEST. ORE SHOOTS ARE UP TO 250 FT. LONG, UP TO 10 FT. THICK, AND HAVE BEEN EXPOSED IN WORKINGS TO A DEPTH OF 65 FT.. MINERALIZATION OCCURS IN VEINS, STRINGERS, AND AS BRECCIA CEMENT WITHIN THE SHEAR ZONES. 12 UNPATENTED CLAIMS IN THE LATE 1950'S.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1982 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

Beyond USGS

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