Mine detail: Quartz Ledge

Previously called 'White CowPorcupine'

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Location

Lat / long: 33.94197, -111.24381

Resource(B)

Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary: Gold, Silver

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1971

Geology

References

MAS40070006
DEP10209714
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ReporterCamm, Thomas W.