Mine detail: Flora Prospect

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

38.16104, -117.95622

Resource(B)

Primary:	Fluorine-Fluorite
Secondary:	Copper, Molybdenum
Gangue:	Iron, Montmorillonite, Quartz
Orebody form:	TABULAR TO IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1940

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host type:	Diorite
Associated type:	Quartz Monzonite
Alteration processes:	Quartz Monzonite Adjacent To Veins Is Partly Altered To Montmorillonite

References

MRDS	M241818
DEP	10046628
Reference	{Deposit:: HORTON, R.C., 1961, AN INVENTORY OF FLUORSPAR OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: N.B.M.G. REPORT/.}{Deposit:: PAPKE, K.G., 1979, NBMG BUU 93, P. 19-20.}{Deposit:: SILBERMAN, M.L., BONHAM, H.F., JR., AND OSBORNE, D.H., 1975, NEW K-AR AGES OF VOLCANIC AND PLUTONIC ROCKS AND ORE DEPOSITS IN WESTERN NEVADA: ISOCHRON/WEST, NO. 13, P.13-21.}{Deposit:: USBM, 1978, MILS DATA}
Reporter	La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.)