Mine detail: Cuatro Palmas Fluorspar Deposit

Location:	Coahuila De Zaragoza, Mexico, North America
Lat / long:	29.29746, -102.33932
dep_id:	10107279
mrds_id:	W006955
Commodity type:	nonmetallic
Major mineral:	Fluorine-Fluorite
Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Production occurred
Development status:	Producer
ore:	Fluorite
gangue:	Calcite, Quartz
orebody_fm:	IRREGULAR (INVERTED CONE)
work_type:	Surface
ore_ctrl:	Faulted Contact Between The Rhyolite Dike And Strongly Brecciated Limestone
Reporter:	Schruben, Paul G., Orris, Greta J.
hrock_unit:	Georgetown Limestone
hrock_type:	Limestone
arock_type:	Rhyolite
Structure:	Nw-Trending Synclinorium Bounded On The Ne By The Serranias Del Burro And On The Sw By The Sierra Del Carmen, Cuatro Palmas Dome And Rhyolite Dike
Year first produced:	1953
References:	Deposit:: MCANULTY, W.N., AND OTHERS, 1963, AGUACHILE BERYLLIUM-BEARING FLUORSPAR DISTRICT, COAHUILA, MEXICO: GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN 74, NO. 6, P. 735 - 743. Deposit:: PICKARD, G.W., 1974, GEOLOGY OF MEXICAN FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS, IN HUTCHESON, D.W., ED., A SYMPOSIUM ON THE GEOLOGY OF FLUORSPAR: KENTUCKY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SPECIAL PUBLICATION 22, P. 23-30. Deposit:: VAN ALSTINE, R.E., 1963, INVESTIGATION OF THE PRINCIPAL FLUORSPAR DISTRICTS OF MEXICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 688, P. 52-57. Deposit:: 1960 GEOLMAP MC ANULTY, W. N. (DOW CHEMICAL CO. Other Database:: CIMRI Production:: PICKARD, 1974.