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Grandview Deposit

Past Producer in Grant county in New Mexico, 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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013502
MRDS ID D009841
Record type Site
Current site name Grandview Deposit
Related records 10150648

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.43673, 32.38429 (WGS84)
Elevation 1698
Relative position 11 MI S 15 W OF WHITE SIGNAL, NM.

Site location context

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 022S 016W 13,24 S2 OF N2 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • 2 MI WEST OF THE BOUND RANCH HOUSE AND 2 MI SW OF THE FENCELINE DEPOSIT.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.43673, 32.38429
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Ne Trending Fault

Ore body information

  • General form LENS
    Strike N 45 E
    Dip 65 SE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Brecciated Fault

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1950
Year of last production 1950

Mining district

District name Gold Hills Mining District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner George F. Tyra And A.G. Griffen
    First year 1955

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS INCLUDE A 50 FT INCLINED SHAFT BEARING S 55 E ON THE VEIN, AND 6 SMALL PITS ALONG THE VEIN OUTCROP.

Comments on development

  • A REPORTED 6 TONS OF ORE WAS SOLD IN 1950 (WILLIAMS, 1966).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, USBM INF CIRC 8307, P. 54

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WHITE TO PALE GREEN, EXTREMELY SILICEOUS, MEDIUM GRAINED TO DENSE FLUORITE FILLS A HIGHLY BRECCIATED FRACTURE ZONE IN PINK GRANITE. THE FLUORSPAR VEIN RANGES FROM 2 TO 18 INCHES IN WIDTH AND IS TRACEABLE FOR 150 FT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1983 Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.) U.S. Geological Survey

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