The Black Bart Prospect is a fluorine-fluorite mine located in Beaver county, Utah.
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Black Bart Prospect MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Black Bart Prospect
Commodity
Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Iron
Secondary: Lead
Location
State: Utah
County: Beaver
District: Star District
Land Status
Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Deposit Type: Contact Metasomatic
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Argillization, Silicification And Pyritization
Rocks
Name: Limestone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Mississippian
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Malachite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Fluorite
Ore: Bornite
Comments
Comment (Reserve-Resource): THE PROSPECT HAS NO COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL
References
Reference (Deposit): BULLOCK, K. C., 1976 , UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY BULL. 110
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