Mine detail: Aguilar Brock Canyon Mine

Previously called 'Also Called the Blue Benny Mine'

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Location

Lat / long:

33.06177, -108.49868

Resource(N)

Primary:	Fluorine-Fluorite
Ore:	Fluorite
Gangue:	Pyrite
Orebody form:	TABULAR

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1944
Last production ended:	1945

Geology

Host type:	Latite
Associated type:	Latite
Tectonic:	Basin And Range
Alteration processes:	Yellow, White And Reddish Brown Discoloring

References

MRDS	D009972
DEP	10101829
Reference	{Deposit:: WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, USBM INF CIRC 8307, P. 41.}{Deposit:: MCANULTY, WN, 1978, NMBMMR MEM 34, P. 34-35.}{Deposit:: ROTHROCK, HE, 1946, NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 86.}{Deposit:: JOHNSTON, WD, 1928, NMBMMR BULL 4, P. 114.}{Production:: WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, P. 41.}
Reporter	Haug, Jerry L. (Worl, Ronald G.)