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Fluorspar Processing Co. mill

Past Producer in Chaffee county in Colorado, 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10262916
MAS/MILS ID 0080150111
Record type Site
Current site name Fluorspar Processing Co. mill

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Plant
Geographic coordinates: -106.0739, 38.6308 (WGS84)
Elevation 2256
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chaffee(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Nathrop(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gunnison(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Montrose(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Arkansas Headwaters(hydrologic unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Arkansas(hydrologic subregion)

Arkansas-White-Red(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Chaffee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 051 N 008 E 34 Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • SE of Hecla Junction and adjacent to the Colorado-American mine in the NW/4 sec. 34, T 51 N, R 8 E.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Plant (1) -106.0739, 38.6308
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Browns Canyon District

Land status

Ownership category Mixed

Comments on development

  • One of four flotation mills in the district, it processed ore from the nearby American Fluorspar Corp. mine during 1942-1946, and was dismantled afterward.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINERAL PROP FILE # 25.800

  • Development

    Van Alstine, R. E., 1969, Geology and mineral deposits of the Poncha Springs NE [Nathrop] quadrangle, Chaffee County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 626, 52 p.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-NOV-1983 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Updater 15-MAR-2006 Beach, Richard A. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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