The Golden Lily Deposit is a fluorine-fluorite mine located in Dona Ana county, New Mexico at an elevation of 5,121 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 5,121 Feet (1,561 Meters)
Commodity: Fluorine-Fluorite
Lat, Long: 32.44722, -106.50556
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Golden Lily Deposit MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Golden Lily Deposit
Secondary: The Deposit Is Shown As the H and H Mine On the Organ Quadrangle
Commodity
Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary: Copper
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Dona Ana
District: Organ Mountains-San Andres Mountains 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
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: H. A. Heuer
Home Office: Las Cruces, N.M.
Years: 1966 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1946
Year Last Production: 1946
Discovery Year: 1946
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: IRREGULAR
Structure
Type: L
Description: N-S To N60e Trending Faults And Fractures
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: GRAB SAMPLE NEAR SHAFT CONTAINED 61.2% CAF2
Analytical Data: 6 FT CHIP SAMPLE ON ADIT FACE CONTAINED 41.2% CAF2
Materials
Ore: Fluorite
Comments
Comment (Location): PROSPECT MAY BE REACHED BY TRAVELING 18.8 MI EAST FROM LAS CRUCES ON US 70, AND THEN 1 MI NORTH. PROSPECT IS ON THE WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)
Comment (Development): PROSPECT CONSISTS OF FOUR CONTIGUOUS UNPATENTED CLAIMS.
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS CONSIST OF TWO ADITS, ONE 75 FT IN LENGTH, THE OTHER 390 FT IN LENGTH, AND A 15 FT DEEP EXPLORATORY PIT.
Comment (Geology): PRECAMBRIAN GRANITE TRAVERSED BY DIORITE DIKES AND PEGMATITES CONSTITUTES THE HOST ROCK. AND IRON-STAINED VEIN CONTAINING COPPER MINERALS FOLLOWS ONE OF THE DIKES. A 75 FT LONG ADIT BRIEFLY EXPLORED THE VEIN ABOUT 100 FT ABOVE A GULCH. A MINOR AMOUNT OF FLUORSPAR OCCURS IN SMALL STRINGERS IN FRACTURES EXPOSED BY THE ADIT. MANY COMPLEX FAULTS CUT THE GRANITE. ONE GROUP TRENDS N60E, WHILE ANOTHER GROUP TRENDS NORTH. FLUORSPAR OCCURS IN THESE FAULTS AS DENSE FISSURE-FILLING VEINLETS AND AS GRANULAR CEMENTING MATERIAL FOR FAULT BRECCIA FRAGMENTS. THE FLUORITE IS WHITE TO PALE GREEN AND SHOWS CUBIC CRYSTALLINE FORM LOCALLY. A 390 FT ADIT DRIVEN 20 FT ABOVE THE GULCH INTERSECTED A 6 FT WIDE BRECCIA ZONE CONTAINING FLUORSPAR FINELY DISSEMINATED WITH APLITE BRECCIA FRAGMENTS.
References
Reference (Deposit): WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, USBM 8307, P. 23-24
Reference (Production): WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, P. 23.
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