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Sunshine Prospect

Past Producer in Dona Ana 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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013577
MRDS ID D009953
Record type Site
Current site name Sunshine Prospect
Related records 10271589

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -106.47834, 32.46124 (WGS84)
Elevation 1402
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position 5 MI NORTH OF WHITE SANDS, NM.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Dona Ana(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

White Sands(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Las Cruces(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Las Cruces(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Tularosa Valley(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande Closed Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande Closed Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Dona Ana

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 021S 005E 19,30 SW OF NW New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • PROSPECT IS ON THE WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -106.47834, 32.46124
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1944
Discoverer W. P. Houser
Year of first production 1944
Year of last production 1944

Mining district

District name Organ Mountains - San Andres Mountains Area

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner W. P. Houser

Comments on development

  • PROSPECT CONSISTS OF FOUR CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, USBM INF CIRC 8307, P. 22

  • Production

    WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, P. 22.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1982 Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.) U.S. Geological Survey

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Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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