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Whitehill Prospect

Occurrence in Luna 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013662
MRDS ID D010077
Record type Site
Current site name Whitehill Prospect
Related records 10159988

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.72727, 32.41069 (WGS84)
Elevation 1573
Relative position 11 MI N 05 E OF DEMING, NM.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Luna(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Massacre Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Deming(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Las Cruces(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Mimbres(hydrologic unit)

Mimbres(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Mimbres(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NM)

Bureau of Land Management NM BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Luna

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 022S 009W 12 NE New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ABOUT 800 FT SOUTHEAST OF THE MAIN GRATTAN MINE SHAFT.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Nnw Trending Shear Zone

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike NNW
    Dip STEEPLY EAST

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Sheared Zone Within And Along A Basalt Dike Cutting Monzonite Porphyry

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Fluorite Ridge Area (Central Group)

Comments on the production information

  • PROBABLY TEST PRODUCTION

Comments on the workings information

  • A 20 FT VERTICAL SHAFT

Comments on development

  • LOCATED ON THE DOROTHY BELL CLAIM (1946)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, USBM INF CIRC 8307, P. 85.

  • Deposit

    ROTHROCK, HE, ET AL, 1946, NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 140.

  • Production

    WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, P. 85.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FLUORSPAR OCCURS IN VEINLETS THAT AGGREGATE LESS THAN 12 IN AS EXPOSED BY A 20 FT VERTICAL SHAFT AFVACENT TO A BASALT DIKE TRENDING NNW INTO THE GRATTAN MINE WORKINGS.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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