Mine detail: Wagon Wheel Gap Fluorspar Mine

Previously called 'Claims: Sierra Vista 1-6Ms 20278'

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Location

Lat / long:

37.74612, -106.82644

Resource(B)

Primary:	Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary:	Gold, Silver, Zinc
Ore:	Fluorite
Gangue:	Barite, Calcite, Chalcedony, Halloysite, Hematite, Limonite, Pyrite, Quartz
Discovery year:	1911

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1913
Last production ended:	1950

Geology

Host rock:	Volcanics Of Wagon Wheel Gap--Farmers Creek Tuff;Carpenter Ridge Tuff
Host type:	Rhyolite,Quartz Latite
Associated rock:	Volcanics Of Wagon Wheel Gap--Farmers Creek Tuff;Carpenter Ridge Tuff
Associated type:	Rhyolite,Quartz Latite
Structure:	San Juan Volcanic Field, Creede Caldera, Mountahope Caldera, La Garita Caldera, Creede Caldera Ring Fracture Zone, Postulated Wagon Wheel Gap Volcanic Center
Tectonic:	Central Cordillera (Southern Rocky Mtns)
Alteration processes:	Alteration Of Fluorite To Rare Fluorides; Alteration Of Pyrite To Limonite And Hematite

References

MRDS	D010674
DEP	10014057
Reference	{Deposit:: AURAND, H.A., 1920, FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF COLORADO: CGS BULL. 18, P. 61-67.}{Deposit:: VAN ALSTINE, R.E., 1947, FLUORSPAR INVESTIGATIONS--WAGON WHEEL GAP DEPOSIT, MINERAL COUNTY, IN VANDERWILT, J.W., MINERAL RESOURCES OF COLORADO: COLORADO MINERAL RESOURCES BD., P. 465.}{Deposit:: BRADY, B.T., 1975, MAP SHOWING FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS IN COLORADO: USGS MAP MR-70, P. 13-14.}{Deposit:: BURCHARD, E.F., 1934, FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS IN WESTERN UNITED STATES: AIME TRANS., V. 109, P. 370-396.}{Deposit:: EMMONS, W.H., AND LARSEN, E.S., 1913, THE HOT SPRINGS AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF WAGON WHEEL GAP, COLORADO: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 8, P. 235-246.}{Deposit:: COLORADO DIV. MINES ANN. OPERATOR REPTS. AND INSP. REPTS.}{Deposit:: STEVEN, T.A., AND LIPMAN, P.W., 1973, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SPAR CITY QUADRANGLE, MINERAL COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS MAP GQ-1052.}{Deposit:: LUNT, H.F., 1915, A FLUORSPAR MINE IN COLORADO: MINING SCI. PRESS, P. 925-926 (12/18/15).}{Deposit:: LARSEN, E.S., AND WELLS, R.C., 1916, SOME MINERALS FROM THE FLUORITE-BARITE VEIN NEAR WAGON WHEEL GAP, COLORADO: NATL. ACAD. SCI., V. 2, P. 360.}{Production:: COLORADO DIV. MINES ANN. OPERATOR REPTS. (1916-50); AURAND, 1920 (1913-17)}
Reporter	Schwochow, Stephen D.