The Hoosier Girl Prospects is a fluorine-fluorite mine located in Lincoln county, New Mexico at an elevation of 7,799 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 7,799 Feet (2,377 Meters)
Commodity: Fluorine-Fluorite
Lat, Long: 34.20972, -105.73056
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Hoosier Girl Prospects MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Hoosier Girl Prospects
Commodity
Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary: REE
Tertiary: Barium-Barite
Location
State: New Mexico
County: Lincoln
District: Gallinas Mining District
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
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.
Administrative Organization: Blm Roswell Resource Area
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Adele Lehman And Edna Lehman Davis .
Home Office: Alhambra, Ca.
Years: 1966 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
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: Sacramento Section
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Fluorspar deposits (fluorite veins)
Orebody
Form: LENTICULAR AND IRREGULAR BODIES, STRINGERS
Structure
Type: R
Description: Dome Structure Caused By A Syenitic Laccolith.
Type: L
Description: Three Brecciated Faults Trending Wnw, N 05 W, And N 40 W.
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Syenite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Name: Syenite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Permian
Name: Syenite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Permian
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: A COMPOSITE SAMPLE OF ONE OREBODY CONTAINED 54.2% CAF2, 8.2% SIO2, 15.0% BASO4, AND 4.5% CAO
Materials
Ore: Barite
Ore: Fluorite
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Deposit): FLUORSPAR OCCURS IN LENSES AND IRREGULAR POCKETS IN BRECCIATED QUARTZITIC SANDSTONE. THE ORE MATERIAL IS VERY SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE RED CLOUD DEPOSIT. IT IS IN AN AGGREGATE OF FRAGMENTS OF DENSE FINE-GRAINED PURPLE FLUORSPAR AND ROCK IN A SOFT FE-STAINED MATRIX OF LOOSELY CEMENTED TINY FLUORITE CRYSTALS, GRANULATED BARITE, AND CLAY. OTHER MINERALS INCLUDE CALCITE, QUARTZ, AND OCCASIONALLY APPRECIABLE AMOUNTS OF BASTNASITE.
Comment (Development): THE USBM PERFORMED SOME TRENCHING AND SAMPLING IN 1943 AND 1944. THE DEPOSIT IS LOCATED ON THE PATENTED HOOSIER GIRL CLAIM.
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS CONSIST OF THREE SHAFTS (ONE ON EACH ORE LENS) RANGING IN DEPTH FROM 20 TO 35 FT AND SEVERAL TRENCHES, ALL MADE BY THE USBM IN 1943.
Comment (Location): IN THE CIBOLA NATIONAL FOREST. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1954)
References
Reference (Deposit): WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, USBM INF CIRC 8307, P. 78.
Reference (Deposit): ROTHROCK, HE, ET AL, 1946, NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 120-121.
Reference (Deposit): SOULE, JH, 1946, USBM RI 3854, P. 7-8.
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