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Horseshoe Group

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, 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. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044445
MRDS ID M231864
Record type Site
Current site name Horseshoe Group
Alternate or previous names Higrade, Nine Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.6792, 38.12967 (WGS84)
Elevation 2637
Relative position 2500 FT S40W OF SPAR CLAIM

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Nyala(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Quinn Canyon Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lund(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sand Spring-Tikaboo Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 003N 056E 09 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • FLUORITE IS COLORLESS TO PALE GREENISH WHITE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Limestone Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Analytical data

Result A BULK CHIP SAMPLE CONTAIN ABOUT 75% CAF2

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Quartz Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Pogonip Group;Pogonip Group
    Rock description Pogonip Group;Pogonip Group

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.6792, 38.12967
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form CEMENT
    Strike N-NW
    Dip STEEP
    Width 1.52M
  • General form CEMENT
    Dip STEEP
  • General form CEMENT
    Dip STEEP
  • General form CEMENT
    Dip STEEP

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along A Thrust Fault (?)Shattered Jasperoid Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • THREE BRECCIATED JASPEROID OUTCROPS: 190 FT, 200 FT, AND 250 FT LONG. THE LIMESTONE IS MEDIUM GRAY TO LIGHT GRAY, MEDIUM CRYSTALLINE, MASSIVE BEDDED.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1953
Discoverer Hubert And Vera Welch

Mining district

District name Willow Creek District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Adaven Fluorspar Co.
    First year 1971
  • Type Owner
    Owner Wood, Norman
    First year 1976

Comments on the production information

  • ORE WAS SHIPPED TO KAISER STEEL IN CALIFORNIA.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF TWO OPEN PITS.

Comments on development

  • HIGRADE CLAIMS WERE LOCATED BY SAINSBURY & CLAUS IN 1957, AND WERE ALLOWED TO LAPSE. THE AREA WAS THEN COVERED BY ADDITIONAL CLAIMS OF THE HORSESHOE GROUP IN THE 1970'S.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SAINSBURY, C.L. AND KLEINHAMPL, FJ, 1969, FLUORITE DEPOSITS OF THE QUINN CANYON RANGE: USGS BULL. 1272-C, P. 16

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, KG, 1979, FLUORSPAR IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 93, P. 53-55

  • Deposit

    KRAL, V.E., 1951, NBMG BULL 50.

  • Production

    PAPKE, 1979, P. 53

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1981 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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