Mine detail: Lost Sheep Prospect

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Location

Lat / long:

38.18802, -113.8861

Resource(N)

Primary:	Fluorine-Fluorite
Gangue:	Calcite
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR VEIN

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Contact Metamorphic
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Needles Range Formation
Host type:	Tuff,Rhyolite
Associated type:	Tuff,Rhyolite
Structure:	Basin & Range, Local Faulting, Believed To Be West Rim Of Caldera-Best, M G
Tectonic:	Miogeosyncline
Alteration processes:	Contact Metamorphic

References

MRDS	D005942
DEP	10087266
Reference	{Deposit:: EVERTS, M L, 1979, UT GEOL & MINERAL SURVEY: ON-SITE INVESTIGATION}{Production:: EVERTS, M L, 1979, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY}
Reporter	Everts, Michael L.