Knight Peak Prospect

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10090923
MRDS ID D009827
Record type Site
Current site name Knight Peak Prospect
Related records 10296562

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.51729, 32.53762 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position 16.6 MI S 45 E OF REDROCK, NM.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Eagle Eye Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Animas Valley(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Gila National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 020S 016W 29 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • PROSPECT IS 3 MI DUE NORTH OF NM 180 AT A POINT 15.4 MI NORTH OF LORDSBURG, ON THE NE SLOPE OF KNIGHT PEAK.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Calcite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.51729, 32.53762

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description N 85 E Trending Fault

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 85 E
    Dip 30 TO 40 SE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissure In Rhyolite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name White Signal Mining District, Malone District

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO SHALLOW PITS 30 FT APART CUT THE VEIN.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, USBM INF CIRC 8307, P. 67.

  • Deposit

    GILLERMAN, E., 1952, USGS BULL 973-F, P. 286.

  • Deposit

    1978A, US BUREAU OF MINES COMPUTER DATA BANK, MILS.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GREEN AND PURPLE FLUORSPAR IS FOUND SPARINGLY WITH CALCITE IN AN 8 IN VEIN AT LEAST 30 FT LONG. DEPOSITION WAS BY SOME WALL ROCK REPLACEMENT AS WELL OPEN SPACE FILLING.
Deposit THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM RECORD NUMBER D011520 BY RON WORL WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1983 Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1984 Davies, Robert C. (Worl, Ron) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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