Mine detail: Font Sante

Previously called 'Fontsante'

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Location

Lat / long: 43.78224, 6.40199

Resource(B)

Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary: Barium-Barite, Magnesite
Ore: Fluorite
Gangue: Quartz
Orebody form: LINEAR

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Yes
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1925

Geology

Host type:Gneiss
Structure:Esterel Massif, French Alps, N - S Faults And Associated Transverse Fractures

References

MRDSW006999
DEP10069461
Reference{Deposit:: CHERMETTE, A., 1973, SPATH - FLUOR: METAL SERVICE, 40 P.}{Deposit:: CHERMETTE, A., 1970, *NDUSTRIE MINIERE DU SPATH-FLUOR EN FRANCE: MINES ET METALLURGY, MARCH 1969 - MAY 1970, P. 18.}{Deposit:: BOULADON, J., 1989, FRANCE AND LUXEMBOURG, IN DUNNING, F.W., GARRARD, P., HASLAM, H.W., AND IXER, R.A., EDS., MINERAL DEPOSITS OF EUROPE, VOLUME 4/5: SOUTHWEST AND EASTERN EUROPE, WITH ICELAND: LONDON, THE INSTITUTION OF MINING AND METALLURGY AND THE MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY, P. 37-104.}{Production:: CHERMETTE, A., 1973, SPATH-FLUOR P. 23; THE SECOND AND THIRD CUMULATIVE FIGURES ARE FROM BOULADON, 1989.}{Reserve-Resource:: CHERMETTE, A., 1973, SPATH-FLUOR P. 24; 2ND ESTIMATE FROM BOULADON, 1989.}
ReporterSchruben, Paul G., Orris, Greta J.