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Spar Mine

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, 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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044455
MRDS ID M231875
Record type Site
Current site name Spar Mine
Alternate or previous names Spar Groupspar, Spar No.1 Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.67004, 38.13578 (WGS84)
Elevation 2530
Relative position 4 MILES W-NW OF ADAVEN TOWN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Nyala(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Quinn Canyon Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lund(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sand Spring-Tikaboo Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe 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 Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 003N 056E 10 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • JUST WEST OF CENTER OF SEC 10; ON TOP OF RIDGE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • THE FLUORSPAR IS WHITE TO LIGHT GRAY WITH A PURPLE TINT.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Montmorillonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) The Dolomite Is Bleached And Partly Altered To Montmorillonite. The Quartz Latite Is Altered To Kaolinite And Minor Montmorillonite.

Analytical data

Result A 2 FT SAMPLE BY THE U.S. BUREAU OF MINES IN 1950 CONTAIN 70.4 % CAF2

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Quartz Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form GRAYISH NODULES, GRANULAR, CRYSTAL AGGREGATES
    Thickness 1.52M
    Length 106.68M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along The South Contact Of A Rhyolite Dike And Limestone. Ne-Trending Shear Zone Along Contact

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE DOLOMITE IS MEDIUM DARK GRAY TO LIGHT GRAY, MEDIUM CRYSTALLINE, THIN TO VERY THIN BEDDED.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1949
Discoverer Hubert Welch

Mining district

District name Willow Creek District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Adaven Fluorspar Co.
    First year 1970
    Last year 1971
  • Type Owner
    Owner Wood, Norman
    First year 1976

Comments on the production information

  • A SMALL TONNAGE OF ORE WAS PRODUCED.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF TWO SMALL PITS. SHORT ADITS AND A WINZE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SAINSBURY, C.L. AND KLEINHAMPL, F.J., 1969, FLUORITE DEPOSITS OF THE QUINN CANYON RANGE: USGS BULL. 1272-C, P. 15

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K.G., 1979, FLUORSPAR IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 93, P. 51-52

  • Deposit

    HORTON, R.C., 1961, NBMG REPORT 1.

  • Deposit

    KRAL, V.E.,1951, NBMG BULL.50.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SMALL HIGH-GRADE REPLACEMENT BODIES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1981 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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