All American Mine

The All American Mine is a fluorine-fluorite mine located in Lincoln county, New Mexico at an elevation of 7,799 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: All American Mine

Commodity

Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary: Barium-Barite
Tertiary: REE

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: Edward D. French
Years: 1966 -

Owner Name: Edward D. French
Years: 1951 -

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1949
Year Last Production: 1951
Discovery Year: 1942
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: PIPES, IRREGULAR BODIES

Structure

Type: R
Description: Dome Structure Caused By A Syenitic Laccolith.

Type: L
Description: Two Major Intersecting Faults Of Unknown Orientation.

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Syenite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pleistocene

Name: Syenite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene

Name: Syenite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Permian

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: A COMPOSITE SAMPLE OF SEVEN SAMPLES CONTAINED 54.27% CAF2 AND 11.72% BASO4.

Materials

Ore: Barite
Ore: Fluorite
Ore: Bastnasite

Comments

Comment (Location): IN THE CIBOLA NATIONAL FOREST. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1954)

Comment (Deposit): THE DEPOSIT LIES IN NORTH-DIPPING ROCKS CONSISTING PREDOMINATLY OF QUARTZITIC SANDSTONES WITH MINOR LIMESTONES THAT ARE CUT BY A SILL OF SEYENITE PORPHYRY AND BY TWO INTERSECTING MAJOR FAULTS. JOINTS, SMALL FOLDS, AND BRECCIA ZONES WERE DEVELOPED DURING THE INTRUSION AND ADJUSTMENTS THAT FOLLOWED. FLUORINE-BEARING SOLUTIONS, ADMITTED THROUGH THESE STRUCTURES AND ALONG BEDDING CONTACTS, REACTED WITH THE PERMEABLE ROCK TO FORM STRINGERS OF FLUORSPAR IN THE JOINTS. VEINS ALONG THE FAULTS AND BEDDING PLANES, PIPELIKE BODIES AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF FRACTURES, AND IRREGULAR MASSES IN BRECCIA ZONES. UNBRECCIATED ROCK WAS NOT NOTICEABLY AFFECTED BY THE SOLUTIONS. WITHIN THE EXPOSED MINERALIZED AREA, WHICH IS ABOUT 500 FT LONG AND 400 FT WIDE, THE DISTRIBUTION AND GRADE OF FLUORSPAR ARE HIGHLY IRREGULAR. THE FLUORSPAR IS FINE-GRAINED, COMPACT, OR POROUS, AND PURPLE ON FRESH SURFACES. LATER STAGES OF MINERALIZATION ARE REPRESENTED BY THE FORMATION OF DRUSY FLUORITE IN CAVITIES AND BY THE

Comment (Deposit): INTRODUCTION OF BASTNASITE.

Comment (Workings): THE DEPOSIT WAS WORKED THROUGH ABOUT 185 FT OF CURVED DRIFT EXTENDING WEST AND SOUTHWEST FROM THE BOTTOM OF AN 85 FT DEEP 2-COMPARTMENT SHAFT. SEVERAL SHALLOW PITS AND TRENCHES WERE LATER DUG ALONG SURFACE EXPOSURES.

References

Reference (Deposit): WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, USBM INF CIRC 8307, P. 77.

Reference (Deposit): ROTHROCK, HE, 1946, NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 113-114.

Reference (Deposit): SOULE, JH, 1946, USBM RI 3854, P. 17.

Reference (Production): WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, P. 77.

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