Cloverleaf Fluorspar 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. 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. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013285
MRDS ID D009505
Record type Site
Current site name Cloverleaf Fluorspar Prospect
Alternate or previous names Blackmoor Mine
Related records 10271599

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.59452, 32.76844 (WGS84)
Elevation 1577
Relative position ABOUT 18.5 MILES S 88 W OF SILVER CITY.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mangas Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Gila-Mangas(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 018S 017W 03 SW New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • ACCURATE LOCATION IS FOR THE BLACKMOOR MINE SHOWN ON THE CLIFF TOPOGRAPHIC QUADRANGLE. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1978)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Burro Mountain Granite
    Rock description Burro Mountain Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.59452, 32.76844

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike NORTH-SOUTH
    Dip VERTICAL
    Thickness 1.83M
    Length 137.16M
    Width 15.24M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault-Fracture Structural Control.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Telegraph District:Northern Burro Mountains; Buzzard Bay Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner R. Y. Chambers
    Home office Silver City, N.M.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 15.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 10 FT. DEEP PROSPECT PIT AND AN INACCESSIBLE 50 FT. SHAFT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ELSTON,W.E., 1960 NMBMMR GEOLOGIC MAP, GM-15

  • Deposit

    GILLERMAN,E., 1964 NMBMMR BULL 83, P. 155-156

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS,F.E., 1966 USBM IC-8307, P. 63

  • Deposit

    HEWITT,C.H., 1959,NMBMMR BULL. 60,P.122

  • Deposit

    GILLERMAN, E.,1952, USGS BULL. 973-F,P.286-287

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GREEN AND PURPLE FLUORITE OCCUR IN A 6 FT. THICK VEIN WHICH CROPS OUT FOR ABOUT 450 FT. ALONG STRIKE AND HAS BEEN PROSPECTED TO A DEPTH OF ABOUT 50 FT..
Deposit THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM RECORD D009830 BY RONALD G. WORL WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1982 Menzie, David New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-JAN-1983 Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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