Mine detail: Fluorite Group

Previously called 'Kneyer Mines: ClaimsFluorite Nos. 1 To 12'

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Location

Lat / long: 32.25485, -108.78341

Resource(N)

Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Ore: Fluorite
Gangue: Calcite
Orebody form: LENSE, LENTICULAR PODS
Discovery year: 1937

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
Last production ended: 1945

Geology

Host type:Andesite
Associated type:Andesite
Tectonic:Basin And Range

References

MRDSD003383
DEP10010032
Reference{Deposit:: ROTHROCK, H. E., JOHNSON, C. H., AND HAHN, A. D., 1946, FLUORSPAR RESOURCES OF NEW MEXICO: NEW MEXICO BUREAU MINES AND MINERAL RES. BULL. 21, P 104-106}{Deposit:: U. S. BUREAU MINES, 1978, MINERAL INVENTORY LOCATION SYSTEM, SILVER CITY MAP 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: FLEGE, R. F., 1959, GEOLOGY OF LORDSBURG QUADRANGLE, HIDALGO COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: NEW MEXICO BUREAU MINES AND MINERAL RES. BULL. 62, 36P.}{Deposit:: WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966 USBM IC-8307, P. 70-71}{Deposit:: THORMAN, C.H., AND DREWES, H., 1978 USGS MISC. GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS MAP, I-1151}{Deposit:: NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA}{Production:: WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966, P. 71.}
ReporterRichter, D. H., Menzie, David, Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.), Bolm, Karen S.