Mine detail: Eagle Spring Mine

Previously called 'Includes Eagle Spring 3 and 4 Claims'

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Location

Lat / long: 30.99601, -105.09858

Resource(N)

Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Ore: Fluorite
Gangue: Calcite, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
Production years: 1943
First production started: 1943
Last production ended: 1943

Geology

Host rock:Bluff Formation (Main Workings);Prospects Also In Permian Hueco Limestone And Cretaceous Yucca Formation
Host type:Sandstone,Limestone
Associated type:Rhyolite
Alteration processes:Fluoritization Of Limestone

References

MRDSW701313
DEP10085683
Reference{Deposit:: PRICE, J. G., HENRY, C. D., AND STANDEN, A. R., 1983, ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MINERAL DEPOSITS IN TRANS-PECOS TEXAS: BUREAU OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY (TEXAS), MINERAL RESOURCE CIRCULAR NO. 73, 108 P.}{Deposit:: UNIV TEX PUB 4301, P. 227-238.}{Deposit:: USGS BULL 987, 98 P.}{Deposit:: EXAMINED BY H.E. ROTHROCK AND ELLIOT GILLERMAN BETWEEN 1943 AND 1946.}{Deposit:: FIELD WORK BY TEXAS BUREAU OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY 1943-1945.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}{Production:: PRICE AND OTHERS, 1983, P. 81}
ReporterPaidakovich, Matthew E., Long, Keith R.