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Blue Spar Mine

Past Producer in Grand county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, 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. Production statistics
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078690
MRDS ID W027197
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Spar Mine
Related records 10155094

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.09013, 38.87248 (WGS84)
Elevation 1817
Relative position APPROX. 2.0 MILES WEST OF THE UTAH - COLORADO BORDER, 6.0 MILES SOUTH - SOUTHWEST OF THE PICTURE GALLERY RANCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grand(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Steamboat Mesa(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Westwater Canyon(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Grand

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 022S 026E 19 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: NE 1/4 , SW 1/4 , SW 1/4 OF SECTION 19

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Fluorite Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.09013, 38.87248
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR
    Strike N 68 DEG W
    Dip 65 DEG NE
    Thickness 0.61M
    Length 9.14M
    Width 0.61M
    Depth to top 6.1M
    Depth to bottom 12.19M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Pegmatite Dike

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Ryan Creek Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Gilbert Daily, Harold Kramer, Gerald Laughter

Production statistics

  • Year 1948
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^84 % Caf2
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    CaF2 Ore Fluorine-Fluorite Fluorine 84wt-pct
  • Year 1967
    Period 1966 - 1967
    Material F
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^ 16 % Pb
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Lead Lead 16wt-pct
  • Year 1967
    Period 1966 - 1967
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^70 % Caf2
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    CaF2 Ore Fluorine-Fluorite Fluorine 70wt-pct

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION INFERRED FROM STOPE EXAMINATION

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NO APPARENT RESERVES

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Area 0.005HA
    Length 18.29M
    Overall depth 12.19M
    Overall length 18.29M
    Overall width 3.05M

Comments on the workings information

  • THIS PROSPECT HAS 1 ADIT AND AN OPEN CUT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K. C., 1976 , FLUORITE OCCURRENCES IN UTAH, UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY BULLETIN 110 , P. 25

  • Deposit

    1976 COMPILE U.G.M.S. - BULLETIN 11

  • Production

    PERRY, L. I.

  • Reserve-Resource

    LEE I. PERRY, 1977

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1977 Perry, Lee I. Bureau of Land Management

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