Mine detail: Santa Catarina Fluorspar Mines

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Location: Santa Catarina, Brazil, South America
Lat / long: -28.49735, -49.249
dep_id: 10069445
mrds_id: W006980
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Fluorine-Fluorite
Trace mineral: Quartz
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Fluorite
gangue: Chalcedony
orebody_fm: PINCH AND SWELL
ore_ctrl: Fault Control
Reporter: Schruben, Paul G.
hrock_type: Quartz Monzonite
arock_unit: Quartz Monzonite Porphyry
arock_type: Quartz Monzonite
yfp_ba: <
Year first produced: 1964
disc_yr: 1955
discr: R. Putzer
References:
  • Deposit:: ,1973, PERFIL ANALITICO DA FLUORITA: DEPT. NACIONAL DA PRODUCATO MINERAL, MINISTERIO DAS MINAS E ENERGIA, BOLETIN 14, 40 P.
  • Deposit:: GROGAN, R.M. AND OTHERS, 1974, THE ENVIRONMENTS OF DEPOSITION OF FLUORSPAR, IN A SYMPOSIUM ON THE GEOLOGY OF FLUORSPAR: KY. GEOL. SURV. SPECIAL PUB. 22, P. 6 - 7
  • Deposit:: TEIXEIRA, A.S. AND PIANTNICKI, S., 1968, GEOLOGIA ECONOMICA DO DISTRITO DE FLUORITA DE SANTA CATARINA (TRANSL. BY DAUGHERTY, F.W.): BRAZILIAL GEOL. SOC. 22D CONG.
  • Deposit:: WENDEL, C.A., 1970, PRELIMINARY REPORT ON FLUORINE RESOURCES OF SOUTHEAST SANTA CATARINA: UNPUBLISHED REPORT, 16 P.
  • Deposit:: 1965 GEOLMAP DNPM 1ST DIST. EXTREME SOUT
  • Production:: GROGAN, R.M., 1974, ENVIRONMENTS OF DEPOSITION
  • Reserve-Resource:: 1973, PERFIL ANALITICO DA FLUORITA: DNPM
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