Mine detail: Cuatro Palmas Fluorspar Deposit

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

29.29746, -102.33932

Resource(N)

Primary:	Fluorine-Fluorite
Ore:	Fluorite
Gangue:	Calcite, Quartz
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR (INVERTED CONE)

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1953

Geology

Host rock:	Georgetown Limestone
Host type:	Limestone
Associated 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

References

MRDS	W006955
DEP	10107279
Reference	{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.}
Reporter	Schruben, Paul G., Orris, Greta J.