Mine detail: Linda Vista Mine

Previously called 'Vista Mine: ClaimsLinda Vista Nos. 1, 2 and 3Buena Vista Nos. 1, 2 and 3Wagon Tire Nos. 1 Through 5: the Old Claims Were Restaked and WereKnown As the Rainbow Group In the 197
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Location

Lat / long:

32.63484, -107.78004

Resource(N)

Primary:	Fluorine-Fluorite
Ore:	Fluorite
Gangue:	Quartz
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR, TABULAR, BLANKET, PODS

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1945
Last production ended:	1953

Geology

Host type:	Andesite
Associated type:	Diorite,Rhyolite,Andesite
Tectonic:	Basin And Range
Alteration processes:	Argillization, Sericitization, Chloritization, And Silicification

References

MRDS	D009763
DEP	10087794
Reference	{Deposit:: ROTHROCK, H.E., JOHNSON, C.H., AND HAHN, A.D., 1946 NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 102-103}{Deposit:: ELSTON, W.E., 1957 NMBMMR BULL 38, P. 71-72}{Deposit:: WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966 USBM IC-8307, P. 34-35}{Deposit:: MCANULTY, W.N., 1978 NMBMMR MEM 34, P. 30-31}{Deposit:: MORRIS, R.W., 1974 M.S. THESIS, UNIV. OF TEXAS AT EL PASO, 47 PAGES}{Deposit:: NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA}{Production:: WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966, P. 35.}
Reporter	Menzie, David, Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.)