The Blue Stone Deposit is a fluorine-fluorite mine located in Chaffee county, Colorado at an elevation of 7,720 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 7,720 Feet (2,353 Meters)
Commodity: Fluorine-Fluorite
Lat, Long: 38.64861, -106.07500
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Blue Stone Deposit MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Blue Stone Deposit
Secondary: Blue Stone & Tiger Lily
Commodity
Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary: Manganese
Location
State: Colorado
County: Chaffee
District: Browns Canyon District
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
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
Owner Name: Commercial Minerals, Inc.
Years: 1969 -
Production
Year: 1949
Time Period: 1943-1944
Mined: 590.520 mt
Material type: FLUORSPAR ORE
Description: Cp_Grade: ^Metallurgical-And Ceramic-Grade
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1927
Year Last Production: 1949
Discovery Year: 1923
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Southern Rocky Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Fluorspar deposits (fluorite veins)
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: R
Description: Southern Mosquito Range, Arkansas Valley Graben
Type: L
Description: Folds, Faults; N-Trending Fault Bounding Arkansas Valley
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Silicification, Fluoritization
Rocks
Name: Gneiss
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Name: Gneiss
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: 25-40% CAF2
Materials
Ore: Fluorite
Gangue: Barite
Gangue: Hematite
Gangue: Kaolinite
Gangue: Montmorillonite
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Opal
Gangue: Psilomelane
Gangue: Manganite
Gangue: Pyrolusite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Goethite
Comments
Comment (Workings): SHALLOW SHAFT, ADIT, CUTS
Comment (Location): NE OF HECLA JUNCTION, EAST OF US HWY 285, WEST OF ARKANSAS RIVER; NW/4 SEC. 27, T 51 N, R 8 E. INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)
References
Reference (Deposit): COLO BOM AN RPT 1941
Reference (Deposit): Sunshine Mining Co. Colorado exploration files, unpublished data, Colorado Geological Survey.
Reference (Deposit): VAN ALSTINE, R.E. AND COX, D.C., 1969, FLUORSPAR MINES AND PROSPECTS, IN, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE PONCHA SPRINGS NE QUADRANGLE, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 626, P. 38-43
Reference (Deposit): BRADY, B.T., 1975, MAP SHOWING FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS IN COLORADO: USGS MAP MR-70, 1:500,000, TEXT
Reference (Production): VAN ALSTINE, R.E. (1969)
Reference (Deposit): VAN ALSTINE, R.E., 1969, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE PONCHA SPRINGS NE QUADRANGLE, CHAFFEE COUNTY, COLORADO: USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 626, 52 P.
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