| Deposit ID | 10013499 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | D009829 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | California Gulch Prospect |
| Alternate or previous names | California Gulch Fluorspar Deposit |
| Related records | 10149969 |
| Geographic coordinates: | -108.40756, 32.65984 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 1829 |
| Relative position | 2 MI 560 W OF THE THOMPSON RANCH |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Grant(county)
New Mexico(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Wind Mountain(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
Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NM)
Bureau of Land Management NM BLM(Type of land area)
BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | New Mexico | Grant |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 019S | 015W | 17 | NE OF NE | New Mexico |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Fluorine-Fluorite Critical | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Fluorite | Ore |
| Chalcedony | Gangue |
| Chrysocolla | Gangue |
| Limonite | Gangue |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Specularite | Gangue |
| Result | A GRAB SAMPLE FROM A TRENCH CONTAINED 87.9% CAF2, 0.4% CACO3, 7.3% SIO2, 0.1% BASO4 |
|---|
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite | ||||
| |||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite |
| (1) | -108.40756, 32.65984 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Local |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Several Nne To Nw Trending Faults. |
| General form | TABULAR |
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| Development status | Occurrence |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Non-metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| District name | Tyrone Mining District, Burrow Mountains District |
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| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Leach, A. A.; Lordsburg (Patented Fluorspar Lode); R. P. Thompson; Tyrone (Other Unpatented Claims) |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | D009829 |
WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, USBM INF CIRC 8307, P. 64-65.
GILLERMAN, E., 1952, USGS BULL. 873-F, P. 276-277.
GILLERMAN, E., 1964, NMBMMR BULL. 83, P. 58-59.
1978A, US BUREAU OF MINES COMPUTER DATA BANK.
1979, US BUREAU OF MINES COMPUTER DATA BANK.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | FLUORSPAR OCCURS AS SPACE FILLING IN VEINS 6 IN TO 3 FT WIDE AND AS CEMENT FOR BRECCIA IN GRANITE HOST ROCK. TEXTURES RANGE FROM GRANULAR TO COARSELY CRYSTALLINE WITH OCTAHEDRAL CRYSTALS. THE FLUORITIZED AREAS STRIKE GENERALLY NNE TO NW. |
| Deposit | THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM RECORD D011513 BY RON WORL WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT |
| 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 |
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