Mine detail: Last Chance Deposit

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

33.07649, -108.49756

Resource(N)

Primary:	Fluorine-Fluorite
Ore:	Fluorite
Gangue:	Quartz
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR, TABULAR
Discovery year:	1942

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1943
Last production ended:	1943

Geology

Host type:	Andesite
Associated type:	Andesite
Structure:	150 Ft Wide Fault/Breccia Zone Trending N25w
Tectonic:	Basin And Range
Alteration processes:	Silicification

References

MRDS	D009962
DEP	10013581
Reference	{Deposit:: WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, USBM INF CIRC 8307, P. 46.}{Deposit:: ROTHROCK, HE, ET AL, 1946, NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 88-89.}{Production:: ROTHROCK, HE, 1946, P. 89}
Reporter	Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.)