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Green Spar Mine

Past Producer 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. 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. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013936
MRDS ID D010503
Record type Site
Current site name Green Spar Mine
Alternate or previous names Cox Prospect, Gratton State Land Mine
Related records 10013663, 10271510

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.73616, 32.41624 (WGS84)
Elevation 1585
Relative position ABOUT 10.25 MILES N 06 E OF DEMING.

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

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

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 02 SE New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS SHOWN ON THE MASSACRE PEAK TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRA NGLE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ANALYTICAL DATA FROM ROTHROCK, ET AL, 1946.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result GRAB SAMPLE FROM ORE BIN CONTAINED
Result 67.5% CAF2
Result 22.4% SIO2
Result 2.5% C ACO3.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.73616, 32.41624
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N 30 W TO N 15 E
    Dip 65 SW TO 80 SE
    Thickness 2.13M

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
Year of first production 1924
Year of last production 1945

Mining district

District name Fluorite Ridge District

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Oscar Abrahams
    Home office Albuquerque, N.M.
    First year 1948
  • Type Owner
    Owner State Of New Mexico
    Home office New Mexico
    First year 1983

Comments on the production information

  • ACCURATE PRODUCTION FROM WILLIAMS, 1966, AND ESTIMATED PRODUCTION FROM GRISWOLD, 1961.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 33.53M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1966 CONSISTED OF A 110 FT. SHAFT WITH ABOUT 250 FT. OF DRIFTS ON TWO LEVELS, AN OPENCUT, AND SEVERAL TRENCHES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JOHNSTON, W.D., JR., 1928 NMBMMR BULL 4, P. 100

  • Deposit

    ROTHROCK, H.E., JOHNSON, C.H., AND HAHN, A.D., 1946 NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 141

  • Deposit

    GRISWOLD, G.B., 1961 NMBMMR BULL 72, P. 115-116

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966 USBM IC-8307, P. 84-85

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MINERALIZATION OCCURS IN SMALL VEINS, VEINLETS, AND BRECCIA CEMEN T.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1983 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources

Beyond USGS

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

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