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Spar Valley Shaft No. 4 Mine

Past Producer in Hudspeth county in Texas, United States with commodity Fluorine-Fluorite
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10085682
MRDS ID W701312
Record type Site
Current site name Spar Valley Shaft No. 4 Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.05191, 30.93379 (WGS84)
Elevation 1756
Relative position 15 MI SW OF VAN HORN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Hudspeth(county)

Texas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Eagle Mountains NE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Indian Hot Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Marfa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Salt Basin(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande Closed Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande Closed Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Texas Hudspeth

Comments on the location information

  • IN SECTION 35, BLOCK 68, TOWNSHIP 9

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Chalcedony Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Pyrite In Rhyolite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Lower Rhyolite
    Rock description Lower Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.05191, 30.93379
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N62E
    Dip 60-75S

Comments on the geologic information

  • NUMEROUS SIMILAR VEINS OCCUR IN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Eagle Mountains

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Texas Fluorspar Mines, Inc.
    First year 1948
  • Type Owner
    Owner Texas And Pacific Land Co.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 91.44M
    Overall depth 13.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT NO. 4 IS 45 FT DEEP AND HAS NO DRIFTS. A 175 FT ADIT WITH A 12 FT DRIFT AND SOME STOPING NEARBY.

Comments on development

  • ACTIVE DURING 1940'S.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PRICE, J. G., HENRY, C. D., AND STANDEN, A. R., 1983, ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MINERAL DEPOSITS IN TRANS-PECOS TEXAS: BUREAU OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY (TEXAS), MINERAL RESOURCE CIRCULAR NO. 73, 108 P.

  • Deposit

    UNIV TEX PUB 4301, P. 227-238

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 987, 98 P.

  • Deposit

    EXAMINED BY H.E. ROTHROCK AND ELLIOT GILLERMAN BETWEEN 1943 AND 1946.

  • Deposit

    FIELD WORK BY TEXAS BUREAU OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY 1943-1945.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1990 Paidakovich, Matthew E. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1992 Long, Keith R. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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