New Mexico · Grant County
Occurrence

Big Spar Deposit

Grant County, New Mexico, United States
Fluorine-Fluorite
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Commodities
PrimaryFluorine-Fluorite
Commodity typeN
Deposit
Deposit sizeS
Ore controlFault Breccia
Materials
Ore mineralsFluorite
GangueQuartz
Geology
Host rockLatite
Associated rockLatite
StructureNorth Trending Fault
Tectonic settingBasin And Range
Economic & production
Development statusOccurrence
First production1950
Last production1950
Identification
Deposit ID10013583
MRDS IDD009966
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates33.049, -108.52146
References
WILLIAMS, FE, 1966, USBM INF CIRC 8307, P. 40.ROTHROCK, HE, 1946, NMBMMR BULL 21, P. 91.WILLIAMS, 1966, P. 40.