| Location: | Greenlee County, Arizona, United States, North America |
| Lat / long: | 32.84789, -109.05453 |
| dep_id: | 10048299 |
| mrds_id: | M800431 |
| Commodity type: | metallic and nonmetallic |
| Major mineral: | Fluorine-Fluorite |
| Minor mineral: | Manganese, Tungsten, Barium-Barite |
| Trace mineral: | Beryllium |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Producer |
| ore: | Barite, Bertrandite, Fluorite, Psilomelane |
| gangue: | Limonite |
| orebody_fm: | LENSES |
| work_type: | Surface/Underground |
| alteration: | Silicification Of Andesite And Rhyolite |
| conc_proc: | Fissure Filling Accompanied By Some Replacement Of Andesite Porphyry Along Fault Zones Supergene Enrichment Of Psilomelane And Iron Oxides; Mineralization Along Fissure Vein Systems |
| ore_ctrl: | Fissure Vein Systems At Or Near Contact Between Andesite Porphyry And Rhyolite Dike (Luckie No. 1); Se-Tranding Fissure Vein System In Fresh Andesite Porphyry (Luckie No. 2) |
| Reporter: | Calder, Susan R., Orris, Greta J. |
| hrock_type: | Rhyolite,Andesite |
| arock_unit: | Teritiary Volcanic Flows |
| arock_type: | Rhyolite,Andesite |
| Structure: | Fluorspar Deposits Are Associated With Intrusive Rhyolite In Andesite Porphyry; Productive Fluorspar Occurs As Erratically Disposed Lenses Rarely Exceeding 100 Ft In Length And 5 Ft In Width, Medium And Coarse Fluorite Occurs In Brecciated Veins Or As Series Of Closely Spaced Veinlets Interspersed Through Brecciated Andesite Porphyry And Gouge |
| tectonic: | Mule Creek Mountain Foothills |
| References: |
- Deposit:: USGS STRATEGIC MINERALS INVESTIGATION PRELIMINARY REPORT 3-207.
- Deposit:: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES, 1976, MINERAL AVAILABILITY SYSTEM, ARIZONA FLUORSPAR, LUCKIE NO. 1 MINE AND LUCKIE NO. 2 MINE.
- Deposit:: ELEVATORSKI, E.A., 1971, ARIZONA FLUORSPAR, ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES, PAGES 23-24.
- Deposit:: USBM FILES; LUCKIE NO. 1 MINE, LUCKIE NO. 2 MINE.
- Deposit:: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 180, P. 349-352.
- Deposit:: AR1Z BUR MINES BULL 114, P. 6.
- Deposit:: LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S.: USGS MAP MR-25.
- Deposit:: HEWITT, D.F., AND FLEISCHER, M., 1960, DEPOSITS OF MANGANESE OXIDES: ECON. GEOL., V. 55, P. 1-55.
- Deposit:: PHILLIPS, K.A., 1987, ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL REPORT 4, 185 P.
- Other Database:: CIMRI
- Production:: TRACE, R.D. 1947
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