Mine detail: Tonuco Mine

Previously called 'Tonuco VeinBeal Vein: Beulah May Group Patented In 1948ClaimsBeulah May Nos. 1 and 2, Beal Mine'

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Location

Lat / long: 32.60095, -106.98225

Resource(N)

Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary: Barium-Barite
Ore: Barite, Fluorite
Gangue: Calcite, Gypsum, Quartz
Orebody form: TABULAR
Discovery year: 1917

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1918
Last production ended: 1928

Geology

Host type:Schist
Tectonic:Basin And Range
Alteration processes:Silicification In Granite. Kaolinization And Chloritization In Schist.

References

MRDSD009011
DEP10012970
Reference{Deposit:: JOHNSTON, W.D., JR., 1928 NMBMMR BULL 4, P. 65-72}{Deposit:: DUNHAM, K.C., 1935 NMBMMR BULL 11, P. 263-264}{Deposit:: ROTHROCK, H.E., JOHNSON, C.H., AND HAHN, A.D., 1946 NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 53-54}{Deposit:: WILLIAMS, F.E., FILLO, P.V., AND BLOOM, P.A., 1964 NMBMMR CIRC 76, P. 10-12}{Deposit:: WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966 USBM IC-8307, P. 19-22}{Deposit:: SEAGER, W.R., HAWLEY, J.W., AND CLEMONS, R.E., 1971 NMBMMR BULL 97, P. 25}{Deposit:: SEAGER, W.R., 1975 NMBMMR GEOLOGIC MAP GM-35}{Deposit:: MCANULTY, W.N., 1978 NMBMMR MEM 34, P.16, P.23}{Deposit:: NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA}{Production:: MCANULTY, W.N., 1978, P. 16}
ReporterMenzie, David, Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.)