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Blue Star 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10062723
MRDS ID TC36270
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Star Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.50479, 33.04622 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Canteen Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mogollon Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Gila(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Gila 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 New Mexico Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 14S 16W 33 NW4 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • JUST OUTSIDE OF THE GILA NATIONAL FOREST.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result CHIP SAMPLE
Result 84.2% CAF2, 11.3% SIO2, 4% CACO3.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.50479, 33.04622
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fault

Ore body information

  • Thickness 0.36M
    Length 457.2M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MCANULTY, W.N., 1978, FLUORSPAR IN NEW MEXICO: NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MEMOIR 34, 64 P.

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966, FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF NEW MEXICO: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 8307, 143 P.

  • Deposit

    ROTHROCK, H.E., JOHNSON, C.H., AND HAHN, A.D., 1946, FLUORSPAR RESOURCES OF NEW MEXICO: NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MINES, STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 21, 245 P.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BRECCIA VEINS; WEST VEIN IS SUGARY TO MEDIUM-GRAINED; EAST VEIN HAS LENSES AND POCKETS IN FAULT GOUGE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1992 Page, Norman J. (Sutphin, D.) U.S. Geological Survey

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