Mine detail: Fourth of July Claims

Previously called 'Ellis ShaftSydney MineBillingsley Fluorspar Mines'

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Location

Lat / long: 32.86039, -109.0762

Resource(B)

Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Secondary: Manganese, Tungsten, Copper, Gold, Silver
Tertiary: Beryllium
Ore: Bertrandite, Fluorite, Psilomelane
Gangue: Olivine, Quartz
Orebody form: LENSES
Discovery year: 1937

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1917
Last production ended: 1955

Geology

Host type:Basalt
Associated rock:Tertiary Volcanic Flows
Associated type:Basalt
Structure:Well-Jointed Basalt In Northerly And Easterly Directions; Undulating Contact Between Upper Dark Red Basaltic Flow And Underlying Greenish Basaltic Flow, Fluorspar Occurs In Fissure Veins Interlaced With Network Of Iron-Stained Quartz Veinlets
Tectonic:Mule Creek Mountain Foothills
Alteration processes:Ferromagnesian Minerals Alterred To Iron Oxide And Carbonate Of Dolomitic Composition; Devitrified And Hydrothermally Alterred Rhyolitic Tuff On Claim No. 2

References

MRDSM800430
DEP10048298
Reference{Deposit:: USGS STRATEGIC MINERALS INVESTIGATION PRELIMINARY REPORT 3-207.}{Deposit:: USBM FILES, FOURTH OF JULY MINE.}{Deposit:: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES, P. 23-24.}{Deposit:: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES, MINERAL AVAILABILITY SYSTEM, ARIZONA FLUORSPAR; FOURTH OF JULY MINE; 1976.}{Deposit:: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES FILE DATA FOURTH OF JULY MINE (SYDNEY, BILLINGSLEY FLUORSPAR MINES AND MILL, ARIZONA EASTERN FLUORSPAR CORPORATION).}{Deposit:: ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE, ARIZONA EASTERN FLUORSPAR CO.}{Deposit:: ARIZ BUR MINES BULL 180, P. 349-352.}{Deposit:: HEWITT, D.F., AND FLEISCHER, M., 1960, DEPOSITS OF MANGANESE OXIDES: ECON. GEOL., V. 55, P. 1-55.}{Deposit:: LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S.: USGS MAP MR-25.}{Deposit:: SAWYER, M.B., GURMENDI, A.C., DALEY, M.R., AND HOWELL, S.B., 1992, PRINCIPAL DEPOSITS OF STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MINERALS IN ARIZONA: UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES SPECIAL PUBLICATION, 334 P.}{Deposit:: PHILLIPS, K.A., 1987, ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL REPORT 4, 185 P.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}{Production:: U.S.G.S. STRATEGIC MINERALS INVESTIGATION PRELIMINARY REPORT 3-207.}
ReporterCalder, Susan R., Orris, Greta J.