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Hope Prospect

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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013591
MRDS ID D009978
Record type Site
Current site name Hope Prospect
Related records 10222994

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.67702, 32.71733 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position 4.5 MI N 50 E OF REDROCK, NM.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Redrock(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 018S 018W 26 NW New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • HEWITT DESCRIBES THE PROSPECT AS THE RELOCATION OF AN OLD PROSPECT BY J.A. MORELAND AND ERNEST SISCO IN MARCH 1955, ON THE WEST SLOPE OF JOE HARRIS CANYON ABOUT THREE-EIGHTHS OF A MILE SOUTH OF THE GREAT EAGLE MINE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Chert Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.67702, 32.71733
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 15 W
    Dip 40 SW
    Thickness 0.61M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • 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 1942
Year of last production 1942

Mining district

District name Red Rock

Comments on the workings information

  • A 20 FT PIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, USBM INF CIRC 8307, P. 31-32

  • Deposit

    HEWITT, CH, 1959, HMBMMR BULL 60.

  • Deposit

    GILLERMAN, E., 1964, NMBMMR BULL. 83, P. 163.

  • Deposit

    MCANULTY, W.N., 1978, NMBMMR MEMOIR 34

  • Deposit

    1978A, U.S. BUREAU OF MINES COMPUTER DATA BANK

  • Production

    WILLIAMS, FE, 1966.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit A TWO FOOT VEIN OF GREEN FLUORSPAR AND CHERT BRECCIA, STRIKING N 15 W AND DIPPING 40 SW IS EXPOSED IN A 20 FT PIT.
Deposit RECORD # D011506 BY ROBERT C. DAVIES HAD BEEN INCORPORATED INTO THIS RECORD. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1983 Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.) New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Updater 01-MAY-1984 Davies, Robert C. (Worl, Ron) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-1990 Bolm, Karen S. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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