Fluorspar King & Blue Bell Group

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, 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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mineral rights holdings
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10173817
MAS/MILS ID 0320210083
Record type Site
Current site name Fluorspar King & Blue Bell Group
Alternate or previous names Summerfield Mine, Summerville Mine, Overholzer Mine, Sage Claims, Fluorspar Group

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -118.33484, 37.95303 (WGS84)
Elevation 2100
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Montgomery(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Benton Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mariposa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Crowley Lake(hydrologic unit)

Mono-Owens Lakes(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Inyo 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 Nevada Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 001 N 033 E 08 NWSWSW Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Unknown
Fluorite Unknown
Quartz Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -118.33484, 37.95303

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 229M
    Width 23M
    Depth to top 0M
    Field Value
    Type of Orebody #1 FISSURE VEIN
    Shape of Orebody #1 IRREGULAR
    Type of Orebody #2 BRECCIA FILL
    Type of Orebody #3 DISSEMINATED
    Primary mode of Origin HYDROTHERMAL
    Primary Ore Control FAULTING
    Strike And Dip N70W:
    Minimum Depth to Top 0
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Date of Last Modification 830316

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1929

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner J. R. And F. Mathieu
    Interest 100
    Year 1975

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM INFORM CIRC. 6941, 1937, P. 49

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR OF MINES RPT. 14, 1966, P. 10-11

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR OF MINES BULL 58, 1961, TB. 6.1, P 80, PT 1

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR OF MINES RPT. 1, 1961, P. 15

  • Deposit

    MINOBRAS: NEV IND MIN (1973) P 30

  • Deposit

    SMITH AM, 1934, DISC. PAPER BY E.F. BURCHARD,TRANS AIME,V 10

  • Deposit

    GILLISON JL, 1945, FLOURSPAR DEP.,AIME TECH PUB.1783 V 9 NO.

  • Deposit

    HEWETT DF ET AL,1936,MIN RES. REGION BOULDER DAM USGS BULL 8

  • Deposit

    WORL, RG, 1974, FLOURITE IN US, USGS MAP MR-60

  • Deposit

    PAPKE KG, 1975, DATA FROM FIELD INV FLOURSPAR OCC. IN NEVAD

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 27-FEB-84 Winters, Dick U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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