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Ashland Prospect

Past Producer in Sierra 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013678
MRDS ID D010099
Record type Site
Current site name Ashland Prospect
Related records 10126178

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.2542, 33.07289 (WGS84)
Elevation 1350
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 4 MI SOUTH OF TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, NM.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sierra(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Williamsburg(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Truth or Consequences(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tularosa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Caballo(hydrologic unit)

Rio Grande-Caballo(hydrologic accounting unit)

Rio Grande-Mimbres(hydrologic subregion)

Rio Grande(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States New Mexico Sierra

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 014S 004W 21 S2 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1975)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) Upper Santa Fe Group
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1918
Discoverer E. M. Whitt And William Peters Lee
Year of first production 1919
Year of last production 1920

Mining district

District name Sierra Caballos Mining District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Whitt And Lee
    First year 1920

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, USBM INF CIRC 8307, P. 119

  • Production

    WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, P. 119.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-83 Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.) U.S. Geological Survey

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

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