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Tip Top Prospect

Occurrence in Luna 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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094622
MRDS ID D010076
Record type Site
Current site name Tip Top Prospect
Related records 10198963

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -107.72477, 32.41374 (WGS84)
Elevation 1722
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position 11.25 MI N 05 E OF DEMING, NM.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Luna(county)

New Mexico(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Massacre Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Deming(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Las Cruces(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Mimbres(hydrologic unit)

Mimbres(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 Luna

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
New Mexico 022S 009W 01,12 S2 OF N2 New Mexico

Comments on the location information

  • 0.25 MI NE OF THE GRATTAN MINE AT THE CREST OF FLUORITE RIDGE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -107.72477, 32.41374
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PODS

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Jugs In Limestone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1943
Discoverer Mary B. Whitehill

Mining district

District name Fluorite Ridge Area (Central Group)

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Mary B. Whitehill
    Home office Deming, N.M.
    First year 1946

Comments on the workings information

  • THREE SURFACE PITS FROM 1000 TO 1200 FT APART MAKE UP THE WORKINGS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, USBM INF CIRC 8307, P. 85.

  • Deposit

    ROTHROCK, HE, ET AL, 1946, NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 141-142.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FLUORSPAR OCCURS IN IRREGULAR JUGS IN LIMESTONE.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

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