Mine detail: Red Cloud Copper and Fluorite Mines

Previously called 'Red Cloud MineEaglenest ProspectConqueror No 4 Prospect'

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Location

Lat / long:

34.19679, -105.74025

Resource(B)

Tertiary:	Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Lead, REE, Silver, Barium-Barite
Other material:	Barite, Calcite, Fluorite, Pyrite, Quartz
Discovery year:	1881

Production

Operation type:	Surface-Underground
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1909

Geology

References

MRDS	D010067
MAS	350270011
DEP	10150086
Reference	{Deposit:: GRISWOLD,G.B. 1959 NM BU MINS,MIN RES BULL 67 P 117}{Deposit:: MCANULTY,W.N. UTEP GRANT G0254013}{Deposit:: SCHREINER,R.A. 1993 US BUREAU OF MINES OFR 99-93}
Reporter	Scheiner, Bernard J.