The Tennessee Mine is a fluorine-fluorite mine located in Dona Ana county, New Mexico at an elevation of 4,751 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 4,751 Feet (1,448 Meters)
Commodity: Fluorine-Fluorite
Lat, Long: 32.45528, -106.49194
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Tennessee Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Tennessee Mine
Secondary: Tennessee Group
Secondary: Claims
Secondary: Tennessee Nos. 1 To 8
Commodity
Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary: Lead
Tertiary: Zinc
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Dona Ana
District: Organ District: Gold Camp Subdistrict: Mineral Hill Area
Land Status
Land ownership: Military Reservation
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
Type: Surface/Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: White Sands Missile Range
Owner Name: F. C. Leach And P. L. Gratton
Years: 1940 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1942
Year Last Production: 1949
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Mexican Highland
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: PINCH AND SWELL
Structure
Type: L
Description: Nw Trending Faulted Contact
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Silicification
Rocks
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: ROTHROCK, AND OTHERS, P. 58, REPORTED ASSAYS FROM NUMEROUS SAMPLES WHICH RANGED FROM 48% TO 65% CAF2 AND FROM 53% TO 32% SIO2.
Materials
Ore: Fluorite
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Galena
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Deposit): DEPOSIT OCCURS IN A SILICIC FAULTED CONTACT ZONE BETWEEN GRANITE AND EPIDIORITE DIKE. VEIN RANGES FROM 1.5 FT. TO 7 FT. THICK. EIGHT UNPATENTED CLAIMS IN THE 1940'S.
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1946 CONSISTED OF SEVERAL SHORT ADITS AND SHALLOW TRENCHES. WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 50 FT LONG BY 15 FT DEEP TRENCH AND 2 ADITS OF 15 FT AND 63 FT LENGTH AT THE SOUTHWEST END OF THE PROSPECT.
Comment (Deposit): RECORD # D009956 BY JERRY L. HAUG HAS BEEN INCORPORATED INTO THIS RECORD. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Comment (Commodity): FLUORITE OCCURS AS WHITE TO PALE GREEN, DENSE TO MEDIUM-GRAINED MASSES ASSOCIATED WITH QUARTZ, AND LOCALLY WITH SPHALERITE, GALENA, AND MANGANIFEROUS CALCITE.
Comment (Location): GEODETIC AND UTM LOCATION IS FOR THE CENTER OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 25. THE MINE IS LOCATED 1.5 MILES NORTH OF US 70 AT A POINT 20.8 MILES EAST OF LAS CRUCES, ON THE WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)
References
Reference (Deposit): ROTHROCK, H.E., JOHNSON, C.H., AND HAHN, A.D., 1946 NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 56-58
Reference (Deposit): WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966 USBM IC-8307, P. 24
Reference (Deposit): MCANULTY, W.N., 1978 NMBMMR MEM 34, P. 16
Reference (Deposit): SEAGER, W.R., 1981 NMBMMR MEM 36, SHEET 1
Reference (Deposit): NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA
Reference (Production): WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966, USBM IC-8307, P. 24.
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