Hoosier Girl Prospects

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

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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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