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Ash Spring Canyon 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014798
MRDS ID D011750
Record type Site
Current site name Ash Spring Canyon Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.35895, 32.82094 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Silver City(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
017S 015W 23 N2 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • 6 MILES NW OF SILVER CITY, WEST SIDE OF ASH SPRING CANYON NEAR ITS HEAD.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Barite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Magdalena Group
    Rock description Magdalena Group
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.35895, 32.82094
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fracture-Filling And Breccia Coatings Along Fault.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Fleming Camp District

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall length 45.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPED BY 50 M. ADIT, RAISE, AND NUMEROUS PITS AND OPEN CUTS.

Comments on development

  • DEPOSIT KNOWN PRIOR TO 1944.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, F. E., 1966, U.S. BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 8307, P. 37.

  • Deposit

    ROTHROCK, H. E., JOHNSON, C. H., AND HAHN, A. D., 1946, NMBMMR BULL. 21, P. 98.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, MAS, U.S. BUREAU OF MINES COMPUTER DATA BANK, 1979.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FRACTURE-FILLING AND BRECCIA COATINGS IN FAULT (N65E) IN PALEOZOIC LIMESTONE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1984 Seanor, Clint E. (Worl, Ron) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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