Mine detail: La Consentida Fluorspar Deposit

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Location:	San Luis Potosi, Mexico, North America
Lat / long:	21.83385, -100.8337
dep_id:	10069431
mrds_id:	W006962
Commodity type:	nonmetallic
Major mineral:	Fluorine-Fluorite
Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Medium ammount of material produced
Development status:	Producer
ore:	Fluorite
gangue:	Calcite, Quartz
orebody_fm:	LINEAR
work_type:	Surface
ore_ctrl:	Faulted Contact Between Extrusive Rhyolitic Rocks And Brecciated Limestone; Also Solution Cavities In Limestone
Reporter:	Schruben, Paul G., Orris, Greta J., Staude, John-Mark G.
hrock_unit:	Doctores Limestone
hrock_type:	Limestone
arock_type:	Tuff,Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
Structure:	Sierra Madre Oriental, Valles-San Luis Potosi Platform
Year first produced:	1955
References:	Deposit:: PICKARD, G.W., 1974, GEOLOGY OF MEXICAN FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS, IN HUTCHESON, D.W., ED., A SYMPOSIUM ON THE GEOLOGY OF FLUORSPAR: KENTUCKY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SPECIAL PUBLICATION 22, P. 23-30. Deposit:: VAN ALSTINE, R.E., 1963, INVESTIGATION OF THE PRINCIPAL FLUORSPAR DISTRICTS OF MEXICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 688, P. 85-86. Deposit:: RUIZ, JOAQUIN, KESLER, S.E., JONES, L.M., AND SUTTER, J.F., 1980, GEOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE LAS CUEVAS FLUORITE DEPOSIT, SAN LUIS POTOSI, MEXICO: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 75, NO. 8, P. 1200-1209. Deposit:: HARBEN, P.W., AND BATES, R.L., 1990, FLUORSPAR, IN INDUSTRIAL MINERALS GEOLOGY AND WORLD DEPOSITS: LONDON, INDUSTRIAL MINERALS DIVISION METAL BULLTIN PLC, P. 110-119. Other Database:: CIMRI Reserve-Resource:: PICKARD, 1974.