Mine detail: Zorro Deposit 1958

Previously called 'Ice Caves Prospect 1946Acme Mine 1944.'

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Location

Lat / long:

35.08006, -108.04924

Resource(N)

Primary:	Fluorine-Fluorite
Ore:	Fluorite
Gangue:	Quartz
Orebody form:	LENTICULAR

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Occurrence
First production started:	1944
Last production ended:	1944

Geology

Host type:	Gneiss
Structure:	The Zuni Mtns Are An Elongate Nw Trending Dome With A Core Of Precambrian Rocks., Ne Trending Fault
Tectonic:	Colorado Plateau

References

MRDS	D010084
DEP	10013667
Reference	{Deposit:: WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, USBM INF CIRC 8307, P. 133-134.}{Deposit:: ROTHROCK, HE, ET AL, 1946, NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 183.}{Deposit:: GODDARD, EN, 1966, USGS MAP I-454.}{Production:: WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, P. 131.}
Reporter	Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.)