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White Eagle Fluorspar Mine

Past Producer in Grant 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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Production statistics
  19. Reserves and resources
  20. Workings at the site
  21. Links to other databases
  22. Bibliographic references
  23. General comments
  24. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10069411
MRDS ID W006929
Record type Site
Current site name White Eagle Fluorspar Mine
Related records 10295943

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.75393, 32.61262 (WGS84)
Elevation 1821
Relative position ABOUT 32.5 MI S70E OF SILVER CITY.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dwyer SE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hatch(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 019S 009W 34 CENTER OF E2 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS SHOWN ON THE DYWER TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE. IN NORTHERN COOKE'S RANGE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • TRACE AMOUNTS OF BASO4 WERE REPORTED IN SOME DRILL CORES.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result BUREAU OF MINES 1945 DRILLING SAMPLES RANGED UP TO 79.57% CAF2, 2.15% CACO3, 17.72% SIO2

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 174
USGS model code 26b
Deposit model name Fluorspar deposits (fluorite veins)

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Granite, Quartz-Microcline Pegmatite, Andesite;Porphryitic Rhyolite
    Rock description Granite, Quartz-Microcline Pegmatite, Andesite;Porphryitic Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Lake Valley Limestone
    Rock description Lake Valley Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.75393, 32.61262
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Normal Fault 30 M Nw. Of Main Workings Strikes West - Northwest. Northern Cooks Range Mts. White Eagle Fault Zone.

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR - OCCASIONALLY OFFSET BY MINOR TRANSVERSE FAULTS
    Strike N 58 DEG W
    Dip VERTICAL
    Length 260M
    Width 1.2M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 168M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Control

Comments on the geologic information

  • GRANITE IS FINE TO MEDIUM GRAINED PINK AND GRAY CONTAINING FRACTURED AND PARTLY SERICITIZED ORTHOCLASE, ABUNDANT PARTLY ALTERED BIOTITE AND SOME QUARTZ

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Discovery year 1918
Year of first production 1933
Year of last production 1972

Mining district

District name Northern Cooks Range District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Ozark-Mahoning Co., Tulsa, Ok. (1950'S); Southwest Fluorspar Co.
    First year 1972
  • Type Owner
    Owner Finley Dunegan And Hiram Harrison

Production statistics

  • Year 1954
    Period 1953-1954
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^61.7 % Caf2
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major CaF2 Ore Fluorine-Fluorite Fluorine 62wt-pct

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTIVE PERIOD WAS 1933 - 1954. SHIPMENTS DURING 1941 AVERAGED 72.8% CAF2. SOME EARLY PRODUCTION MADE METALLURGICAL GRADE WITH HAND SORTING. PRODUCTION HAS BEEN FROM 1 MAIN VEIN.

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1973
    Demonstrated 36000mt ore
    Inferred 25000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Fluorine-Fluorite CaF2 60 wt-pct Fluorine Major 1973

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Area 0.045HA
    Length 609.6M
    Overall depth 158M
    Overall length 137.16M
    Overall width 3M

Comments on the workings information

  • SURFACE CUTS ARE AS DEEP AS 30 M. 2 SHAFTS (ONE TO 550 FT, ANOTHER TO 235 FT). ABOUT 2000 FT OF DRIFTS.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: EARLY PRODUCTION MADE METALLURGICAL GRADE WITH ONLY HAND SORTING. MOST ORE WAS MILL GRADE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JOHNSTON, W.D.,JR., 1928 NMBMMR BULL 4, P. 100-103

  • Deposit

    ROTHROCK, H.E., JOHNSON, C.H., AND HAHN, A.D., 1946 NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 98-102

  • Deposit

    GILLERMAN, E., AND TRACE, R.D., 1946 USGS STRATEGIC MINERALS INVESTIGATION, PRELIMINARY REPORT 3-199, 4 PAGES

  • Deposit

    SOULE, J.H., 1946 USBM RI-3903, 5 PAGES

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966 USBM IC-8307, P. 35-36

  • Deposit

    MCANULTY, W.N., 1978 NMBMMR MEM 34, P. 17, 29-30

  • Deposit

    NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    GILLERMAN, E., AND TRACE, R.D., GEOLOGIC MAP APPEARS AS PLATE 11 IN ROTHROCK, H.E., 1946, FLUORSPAR RESOURCES OF NEW MEXICO: NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES, BULLETIN 21.

  • Deposit

    1945 DIREXPL U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, SOULE, J. H.

  • Deposit

    1945 GEOLMAP GILLERMAN, E. AND TRACE, R. D.

  • Production

    MCANULTY, 1978, P.17.

  • Reserve-Resource

    MCANULTY, 1978, P.30.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FLUORITE AS VEINS IN GRANITE AND VOLCANICS AND ALSO AS REPLACEMENT OF SILICEOUS RHYOLITE AND ANDESITE. DRILLING SHOWS VEINS EXTEND TO AT LEAST A DEPTH OF 700 FT. BELOW 220 FT, MOST OF THE VEINS ARE IN ANDESITE. THE AVERAGE VEIN WIDTH OF THE RESERVES IS 6 FT. SOME MINERALIZATION AS STOCKWORKS. ELEVEN UNPATENTED CLAIMS AND ONE PATENTED CLAIM MINERAL SURVEY NUMBER 2034.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1975 Schruben, Paul G. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-DEC-1982 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-NOV-1991 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

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