Double Strike Prospects

The Double Strike Prospects is a fluorine-fluorite mine located in Grant county, New Mexico at an elevation of 5,476 feet.

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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.

Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Double Strike Prospects
Secondary: Valley Spar Prospect: Rocky Trail Prospect: Claims
Secondary: Valley Spar Nos. 1 and 2 Located In 1918.

Commodity

Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Secondary: Gold

Location

State: New Mexico
County: Grant
District: Bound Ranch District

Land Status

Land ownership: State
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: State Of New Mexico
Home Office: New Mexico
Years: 1980 -

Owner Name: Moses Trimmer

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1918
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: LENSES

Structure

Type: L
Description: N Trending Faults

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Neoproterozoic

Name: Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Neoproterozoic

Name: Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Fluorite
Ore: Gold
Gangue: Quartz

Comments

Comment (Deposit): THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM RECORD D009843 BY RONALD G. WORL WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Comment (Workings): WORKINGS REPORTED IN 1966 CONSISTED OF SEVERAL PITS, TRENCHES, OPEN CUTS AND TWO DEEP SHAFTS WHICH WERE CAVED.

Comment (Location): LOCATION OS 0.5 MI NORTH OF THE WINDMILL DEPOSIT. ACCURATE LOCATION AS SHOWN ON USGS MISCELLANEOUS FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-1039. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1978); 1:24000 QUADRANGLE MAP IS A 1963 EDITION

Comment (Deposit): DEPOSIT CONSISTS OF VEINS, PODS, STRINGERS, AND FLUORSPAR CEMENTED BRECCIA IN THREE NORTH-TRENDING FAULT ZONES UP TO 4 FT THICK. PURPLE, MEDIUM TO COARSELY CRYSTALLINE FLUORITE WAS DEPOSITED IN SILICIC VEINS 1 TO 18 IN WIDE. THE VEINS OCCUR IN BRECCIATED FAULT ZONES 1-4 FT WIDE IN GRANITE. TWO NEARLY PARALLEL FAULT ZONES TREND NORTH AND DIP STEEPLY EAST. A THIRD FAULT ZONE BEARS NE AND DIPS STEEPLY NW. TWO UNPATENTED CLAIMS IN 1918.

References

Reference (Deposit): GILLERMAN, E., 1952 USGS BULL 973-F, P. 283

Reference (Deposit): WILLIAMS, F.E., 1966 USBM IC-8307, P. 53

Reference (Deposit): ROTHROCK, H.E., JOHNSON, C.H., AND HAHN, A.D., 1946 NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 78

Reference (Deposit): HEDLUND, D.C., 1978 USGS MISCELLANEOUS FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-1039

Reference (Production): ROTHROCK, ET AL, 1946, P. 78, REPORTED THE DEPOSIT WAS DEVELOPED FOR GOLD BUT A SMALL AMOUNT OF FLUORSPAR WAS SOLD DURING THE EARLY 1940'S.

Reference (Deposit): HEDLUND, D., UNPUBLISHED U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOL. MAPS

Reference (Deposit): GILLERMAN, E., 1964, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF WESTERN GRANT COUNTY, NEW MEXICO: NEW MEXICO BUREAU MINES AND MINERAL RES. BULL. 83, P133

Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU MINES, 1978, MINERAL INVENTORY LOCATION SYSTEM, SILVER CITY MAP 1:250,000.

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