Mine detail: South Sister Peak Spurrite Deposit

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Location: Luna County, New Mexico, United States, North America
Lat / long: 31.90708, -107.69809
dep_id: 10062604
mrds_id: TC36128
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Stone
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Metamorphic
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
gangue: Andradite, Diopside, Wollastonite
Reporter: Page, Norman J. (Sutphin, D.)
hrock_type: Limestone
arock_type: Quartz Monzonite
disc_yr: 1928
References:
  • Deposit:: GRISWOLD, G.B., 1961, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LUNA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 72, 157 P.
  • Deposit:: LASKY, S.G., AND WOOTON, T.P., 1933, THE METAL RESOURCES OF NEW MEXICO AND THEIR ECONOMIC FEATURES: NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 7, 178 P.
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