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Flora Prospect

Occurrence in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Fluorine-Fluorite, Copper, Molybdenum
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046628
MRDS ID M241818
Record type Site
Current site name Flora Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.95622, 38.16104 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Relative position ABOUT 0.4 MILE NORTH OF THE ROCK HILL TUNGSTEN MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rock Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NV)

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

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 004N 036E 34 NE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ON S. PART OF AN ISOLATED MOUNTAIN AT EAST END OF THE CANDELARIA HILLS, ABOUT 1200 FT WEST OF US. HIGHWAY 95. 4 CLAIMS. UTM IS TO ONE OF SEVERAL WORKINGS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Copper Secondary
Molybdenum Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • FLUORSPAR IS VERY LIGHT GREEN TO VERY LIGHT GRAY AND IS COARSE-GRAINED

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Iron Gangue
Montmorillonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Quartz Monzonite Adjacent To Veins Is Partly Altered To Montmorillonite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Chronological age 78.3
    Dating method K-Ar
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.95622, 38.16104
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR TO IRREGULAR
    Strike NE
    Dip N
    Length 121.92M
    Width 9.14M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE BEST VEIN STRIKES N70E, IS TRACEABLE FOR 400 FT ON THE WEST SIDE OF A RIDGE. THE HANGING WALL IS REGULAR AND DIPS 60N BUT THE FOOTWALLIS IRREGULAR IN PLACES CAUSING THE VEIN TO PINCH AND SWELL FROM 3-12 FTMOST OF THE VEIN IS QUARTZ WITH SPARSE FLUORITE BUT IRREGULAR MASSES OFNEARLY PURE FLUORITE ARE PRESENT, UP TO 3FT IN DIAMETER.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1940
Discoverer Houston Howard And G. Beruatto

Mining district

District name Rock Hill District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 121.92M
    Overall depth 15.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • 50-FT. SHAFT; 300 TO 400 FT. OF DRIFTING, SEVERAL ADITS AND NUMEROUS SHALLOW PITS

Comments on development

  • MAINTAINED BY BERUATTO FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS AFTER THEIR LOCATION IN 1940. THE MOUNTAIN HAS BEEN EXTENSIVELY DRILLED FOR COPPER AND MOLYBDENUM

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HORTON, R.C., 1961, AN INVENTORY OF FLUORSPAR OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: N.B.M.G. REPORT/.

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K.G., 1979, NBMG BUU 93, P. 19-20.

  • Deposit

    SILBERMAN, M.L., BONHAM, H.F., JR., AND OSBORNE, D.H., 1975, NEW K-AR AGES OF VOLCANIC AND PLUTONIC ROCKS AND ORE DEPOSITS IN WESTERN NEVADA: ISOCHRON/WEST, NO. 13, P.13-21.

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1978, MILS DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEINS MINERALIZED WITH SULPHIDES AND CONTAINING CONSIDERABLE FLUORSPAR OCCUR NEAR THE SOUTH END OF THE MOUNTAIN WHERE 6-8 VEINS 1-12 FT WIDE CONTAIN IRREGULAR AREAS RICH IN FLUORSPAR

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1981 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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