Master Claim

Past Producer in Grant county in New Mexico, United States with commodity Fluorine-Fluorite
Sections on this page
  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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10062727
MRDS ID TC36274
Record type Site
Current site name Master Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.6548, 33.17232 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rice Ranch(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 13S 18W 13 New Mexico

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore

Analytical data

Result SORTED ORE 95.2% CAF2
Result SHORTER AID, 29.75% CAF2.

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.6548, 33.17232

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 SHORT CAVED ADITS IN 1976.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RATTE, J.C., GASKILL, D.L., EATON, G.P., PETERSON, D.L., STOTELMEYER, R.B., AND MEEVES, H.C., 1979, MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE GILA PRIMITIVE AREA AND GILA WILDERNESS, NEW MEXICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1451, 229 P

  • Production

    RATTE AND OTHERS (1979).

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NARROW FLUORSPAR VEINS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1992 Page, Norman J. (Sutphin, D.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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