Mine detail: Blue Spar Deposit

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Location: Grant County, New Mexico, United States, North America
Lat / long: 33.04567, -108.50534
dep_id: 10013586
mrds_id: D009970
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Fluorine-Fluorite
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Fluorite
orebody_fm: TABULAR
ore_ctrl: Breccia Zones
Reporter: Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.)
hrock_type: Latite
arock_type: Latite
Structure: North Trending Fault
tectonic: Basin And Range
yfp_ba: <
Year first produced: 1946
yr_lst_prd: 1948
discr: W.A. Howard; Cliff, Nm.
References:
  • Deposit:: WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, USBM INF CIRC 8307, P.41.
  • Deposit:: ROTHROCK, HE, ET AL, 1946, NMBMMR BULL 21.
  • Production:: WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, P. 41.
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