Mine detail: Huckleberry Mine

Previously called 'Whitewater Prospect'

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Location

Lat / long:

33.31704, -108.82231

Resource(N)

Primary:	Fluorine-Fluorite
Ore:	Fluorite
Gangue:	Calcite, Quartz
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Discovery year:	1926

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1934
Last production ended:	1944

Geology

Host type:	Rhyolite,Latite
Associated rock:	Cooney
Associated type:	Felsic Volcanic Rock
Structure:	Large Nnw Trending Faults, Numerous Nw Trending Faults, Some Ne Trending Faults
Tectonic:	Basin And Range

References

MRDS	D009807
DEP	10013491
Reference	{Deposit:: MCANULTY, WN, 1978, NMBMMR MEM 34, P. 21-22.}{Deposit:: RATTE, JC, ET AL, NMBMMR OPEN FILE REPT, 1972.}{Deposit:: ARNOLD, R1, MS THESIS, UTEP, 1974.}{Deposit:: SUR, FJ, 1947, NMBMMR REPT INV 4053.}{Production:: MCANULTY, WN, 1978, P. 21.}
Reporter	Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.)