Mine detail: Rocky Ridge Prospects

Previously called 'Section 44 Prospects Including Cooper 5Cooper 4And Fox 7'

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Location

Lat / long:

30.90518, -105.10608

Resource(N)

Primary:	Fluorine-Fluorite
Ore:	Fluorite
Gangue:	Calcite, Chalcedony, Quartz
Discovery year:	1943

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:	Bluff Formation
Host type:	Quartzite,Siltstone,Sandstone,Limestone,Rhyolite
Associated rock:	Upper Rhyolite
Associated type:	Rhyolite
Alteration processes:	Fluoritization And Silicification Of Limestone

References

MRDS	W701324
DEP	10085694
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:: TX BEG HANDBOOK 3, 31 P.}{Deposit:: USGS BULL 987, 98 P.}{Deposit:: EXAMINED BY H.E. ROTHROCK AND ELLIOT GILLERMAN BETWEEN 1943 AND 1946}{Other Database:: CIMRI}
Reporter	Paidakovich, Matthew E., Long, Keith R.