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Lucky Strike Prospect

Occurrence 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. Mineral occurrence model information
  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. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10085685
MRDS ID W701315
Record type Site
Current site name Lucky Strike Prospect
Alternate or previous names Section 26 Prospect. Includes Bute 4, Western Fluorite Group 1, And Last Chance Claims.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -105.0533, 30.94657 (WGS84)
Elevation 1521
Relative position 15 MI (24 KM) 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 27, BLOCK 68, TOWNSHIP 9

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Fluoritization Of Limestone

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 238
USGS model code 32m
Deposit model name Manto fluorite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Finlay Limestone
    Rock description Finlay Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -105.0533, 30.94657
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THIS PROSPECT OCCURS ROUGHLY AT THE SAME STRATIGRAPHIC HORIZON WITHIN THE FINLAY LIMESTONE AS DO THE LARGER NORTH AND SOUTH OREBODIES AT SPAR VALLEY.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Eagle Mountains

Ownership information

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

Comments on the workings information

  • PROSPECT PITS AND TRENCHES.

Comments on development

  • PROSPECTED BY U.S. BUREAU OF MINES MID-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

    USGS BULL 987, 98 P.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    EXPLORED BY U.S. BUREAU OF MINES MID-1940'S

  • 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

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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