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Goat Ridge Fluorspar Prospect

Prospect in Luna 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087871
MRDS ID D010501
Record type Site
Current site name Goat Ridge Fluorspar Prospect
Alternate or previous names Goat Ridge Prospect
Related records 10199045

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.78921, 32.43568 (WGS84)
Elevation 1554
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 12 MILES N 08 W OF DEMING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Luna(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Goat Ridge(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Deming(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)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Luna

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 021S 009W 32 E2 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • GEODETIC AND UTM LOCATION IS FOR THE APPROXIMATE CENTER OF THE EAS T HALF OF SECTION 32.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.78921, 32.43568
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR, PODS, LENSES

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralization Localized In Brecciated Host Rock.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Fluorite Ridge District

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner James E. Wilson
    Home office Brady, Tx.
    First year 1978
  • Type Owner
    Owner State Of New Mexico
    Home office New Mexico
    First year 1983

Comments on the workings information

  • PROSPECT PITS AND EXPLORATORY TRENCHES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MCANULTY, W.N., 1978 NMBMMR MEM 34, P. 39

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MINERALIZATION OCCURS IN IRREGULARLY SHAPED VUGS, PODS, FRACTURES , AND MANTOS AS FLUORITE-JASPEROID REPLACEMENT BODIES.
Deposit THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM RECORD D010100 BY RONALD G. WORL WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-83 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-FEB-83 Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.) U.S. Geological Survey

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