| Deposit ID | 10009970 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | D003291 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Double Strike Prospects |
| Alternate or previous names | Valley Spar Prospect: Rocky Trail Prospect: Claims, Valley Spar Nos. 1 and 2 Located In 1918. |
| Related records | 10281384 |
| Geographic coordinates: | -108.38756, 32.41873 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 1669 |
| Relative position | ABOUT 26 MILES S 14 W OF SOCORRO. |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Grant(county)
New Mexico(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
C Bar Ranch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Lordsburg(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
ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | New Mexico | Grant |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 022S | 015W | 04 | SE | New Mexico |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Fluorine-Fluorite Critical | Primary |
| Gold | Secondary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Fluorite | Ore |
| Gold | Ore |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) | ||||||
| Rock unit name | Burro Mountain Granite | ||||||
| Rock description | Burro Mountain Granite | ||||||
| |||||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite |
| (1) | Lower middle Tertiary rhyolitic lavas and local tuffs |
|---|
| Type of structure | Local |
|---|---|
| Structure description | N Trending Faults |
| General form | LENSES |
|---|---|
| Strike | N 05 TO 10 E AND N 20 W |
| Dip | STEEPLY EAST |
| Thickness | 1.22M |
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Both |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1918 |
| Discoverer | Moses Trimmer |
| District name | Bound Ranch District |
|---|
| Ownership category | State |
|---|
| Type | Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | Moses Trimmer |
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | State Of New Mexico |
| Home office | New Mexico |
| First year | 1980 |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | D003291 |
HEDLUND, D., UNPUBLISHED U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOL. MAPS
U.S. BUREAU MINES, 1978, MINERAL INVENTORY LOCATION SYSTEM, SILVER CITY MAP 1:250,000.
GILLERMAN, E., 1952 USGS BULL 973-F, P. 283
ROTHROCK, H.E., JOHNSON, C.H., AND HAHN, A.D., 1946 NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 78
WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966 USBM IC-8307, P. 53
HEDLUND, D.C., 1978 USGS MISCELLANEOUS FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-1039
ROTHROCK, ET AL, 1946, P. 78, REPORTED THE DEPOSIT WAS DEVELOPED FOR GOLD BUT A SMALL AMOUNT OF FLUORSPAR WAS SOLD DURING THE EARLY 1940'S.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | DEPOSIT CONSISTS OF VEINS, PODS, STRINGERS, AND FLUORSPAR CEMENTED BRECCIA IN THREE NORTH-TRENDING FAULT ZONES UP TO 4 FT THICK. PURPLE, MEDIUM TO COARSELY CRYSTALLINE FLUORITE WAS DEPOSITED IN SILICIC VEINS 1 TO 18 IN WIDE. THE VEINS OCCUR IN BRECCIATED FAULT ZONES 1-4 FT WIDE IN GRANITE. TWO NEARLY PARALLEL FAULT ZONES TREND NORTH AND DIP STEEPLY EAST. A THIRD FAULT ZONE BEARS NE AND DIPS STEEPLY NW. TWO UNPATENTED CLAIMS IN 1918. |
| Deposit | THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM RECORD D009843 BY RONALD G. WORL WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-NOV-78 | Lawrence,V.A. | New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources | |
| Updater | 01-JUL-82 | Menzie, David | New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources | |
| Updater | 01-JAN-83 | Worl, Ronald G. | U.S. Geological Survey |
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