Mine detail: White Eagle Fluorspar Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

32.61262, -107.75393

Resource(N)

Primary:	Fluorine-Fluorite
Ore:	Fluorite
Gangue:	Calcite, Quartz
Orebody form:	LINEAR - OCCASIONALLY OFFSET BY MINOR TRANSVERSE FAULTS
Discovery year:	1918

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Medium
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1933
Last production ended:	1972

Geology

Host rock:	Lake Valley Limestone
Host type:	Granite
Associated rock:	Granite, Quartz-Microcline Pegmatite, Andesite;Porphryitic Rhyolite
Associated type:	Rhyolite,Andesite
Structure:	Normal Fault 30 M Nw. Of Main Workings Strikes West - Northwest. Northern Cooks Range Mts. White Eagle Fault Zone.
Tectonic:	Basin And Range

References

MRDS	W006929
DEP	10069411
Reference	{Deposit:: JOHNSTON, W.D.,JR., 1928 NMBMMR BULL 4, P. 100-103}{Deposit:: ROTHROCK, H.E., JOHNSON, C.H., AND HAHN, A.D., 1946 NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 98-102}{Deposit:: GILLERMAN, E., AND TRACE, R.D., 1946 USGS STRATEGIC MINERALS INVESTIGATION, PRELIMINARY REPORT 3-199, 4 PAGES}{Deposit:: SOULE, J.H., 1946 USBM RI-3903, 5 PAGES}{Deposit:: WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966 USBM IC-8307, P. 35-36}{Deposit:: MCANULTY, W.N., 1978 NMBMMR MEM 34, P. 17, 29-30}{Deposit:: NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA}{Deposit:: GILLERMAN, E., AND TRACE, R.D., GEOLOGIC MAP APPEARS AS PLATE 11 IN ROTHROCK, H.E., 1946, FLUORSPAR RESOURCES OF NEW MEXICO: NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES, BULLETIN 21.}{Deposit:: 1945 DIREXPL U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, SOULE, J. H.}{Deposit:: 1945 GEOLMAP GILLERMAN, E. AND TRACE, R. D.}{Production:: MCANULTY, 1978, P.17.}{Reserve-Resource:: MCANULTY, 1978, P.30.}
Reporter	Schruben, Paul G., Menzie, David, Orris, Greta J.