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Green Spar Mine

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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013584
MRDS ID D009967
Record type Site
Current site name Green Spar Mine
Related records 10272025

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.50395, 33.05428 (WGS84)
Elevation 1524
Relative position 1.25 MI NORTH OF THE CLUM MINE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Canteen Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mogollon Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Gila(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Gila 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 Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 014S 016W 28 SW New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • THE PROSPECT IS ON THE STEEP WEST SIDE OF BRUSHY CANYON NEAR ITS JUNCTURE WITH THE GILA RIVER. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1978)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification, Bleaching Of Biotite

Analytical data

Result A 68 IN CHIP SAMPLE ACROSS THE VEIN CONTAINED 45.4% CAF2.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.50395, 33.05428
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Nw Trending Fault

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 37 W
    Dip 65 NE TO 8 DEG NE
    Width 1.83M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Brecciated Fault

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1949
Year of last production 1953

Mining district

District name Gila Mining District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner C. H. And Lola Simpson
    First year 1966

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS IN 1946 CONSISTED OF A 30 FT TRENCH AND 240 FT OF CROSSCUTTING AND DRIFTING. WORK DONE DURING MINING FROM 1949 TO 1953 IS NOT KNOWN.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, USBM INF CIRC 7308, P. 45-46.

  • Deposit

    ROTHROCK, HE, ET AL, 1946, NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 85-86.

  • Production

    WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, P. 46.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FLUORSPAR OCCURS SPARINGLY IN A BRECCIATED TRENDING NW IN LATITE FOR SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET. MINABLE ORE WAS LIMITED TO THE SOUTHEASTERN PORTION OF THE FAULT ZONE WHERE THE VEIN IS 5 TO 6 FT WIDE. THE ORE MINERAL IS PALE GREEN AND MEDIUM TO COARSELY CRYSTALLINE, OCCURRING IN VEINLETS AND POCKETS. SOME MINOR WALL-ROCK REPLACEMENT HAS OCCURRED, AND QUARTZ DILUTION IS PRESENT THROUGHOUT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1983 Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.) U.S. Geological Survey

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