Mine detail: Cougar Spar Mine

Previously called 'Spar #1Spar #2'

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Location

Lat / long: 38.21663, -113.83415

Resource(N)

Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary: Quartz, Calcium
Ore: Fluorite
Gangue: Calcite, Quartz
Orebody form: IRREGULAR/PINCH & SWELL
Discovery year: 1937

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Contact Metamorphic
Production size: Small
Development status: Producer
First production started: 1941

Geology

Host rock:Needles Range Formation
Host type:Diorite,Andesite
Structure:Basin & Range, Indian Peak Range
Tectonic:Miogeosyncline
Alteration processes:Fault Gouge, Breccia

References

MRDSW006953
DEP10069424
Reference{Deposit:: BULLOCK, K.C., 1976, FLUORITE OCCURRENCES IN UTAH: UGMS BULL. 110, P. 18-20.}{Deposit:: EVERETT, F.D., & WILSON, S.R., 1950 INVESTIGATION OF J.B. FLUORITE DEPOSIT, BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH: USBM RI 4726, 11. P}{Deposit:: EVERETT, F. D. AND WILSON, S. R., 1951, INVESTIGATION OF THE COUGAR SPAR FLUORSPAR DEPOSIT, BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH: U. S. BU MINES REP OF INVES 4820}{Deposit:: COCHRAN, K.L., 1952, FLUORSPAR RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA, NEVADA, UTAH, IDAHO, AND COLORADO ADJACENT AND TRIBUTARY TO FACILITIES OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY: UNION AND PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, LOS ANGLES, CALIFORNIA, 78 P.}{Deposit:: 1945 GEOLMAP THURSTON W. R.}{Deposit:: 1950 COMPILE USBM (SEE REF. #2)}{Deposit:: 1954 GEOMAP THURSTON, W.R. USGS BULL 1005}{Production:: EVERTS, M.L., 1979, GEOLOGIST.}{Reserve-Resource:: THURSTON, W. R. ET AL, 1954, F. DEP. UTAH P. 49}
ReporterSchruben, Paul G., Everts, Mike L.