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Daniels Camp Mine (Daniels Camp 1 & 2 claims), Steeple Rock Mining District (Duncan Mining District), Greenlee County, Arizona, USAi
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Daniels Camp Mine (Daniels Camp 1 & 2 claims)Mine
Steeple Rock Mining District (Duncan Mining District)Mining District
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
32° 51' 24'' North , 109° 5' 14'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
32.85667,-109.08722
GRN:
N22W66
Type:
Mine
Köppen climate type:
BSk : Cold semi-arid (steppe) climate
Nearest Settlements:
PlacePopulationDistance
York557 (2011)11.5km
Duncan799 (2017)15.1km
Virden137 (2017)20.5km
Clifton3,685 (2017)29.1km
Morenci1,489 (2011)35.8km
Mindat Locality ID:
131344
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:131344:7
GUID (UUID V4):
0


A former underground Fluorspar-Mn-Be mine located in the NE¼ sec. 5, T7S, R32E, 12 miles N of Duncan, 2.5 miles (E per MRDS ? - not possible) W of the Arizona-New Mexico state line, on BLM-administered land. Discovered 1918.

Mineralization is a tabular ore body 3 meters thick hosted in andesite. Medium- to coarse-grained, colorless or green fluorite as lenses in veins of dense, massive, banded quartz cutting Tertiary volcanics. Ore control was fracturing and faulting. Alteration was silicification.

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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical Elements

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1 valid mineral.

Detailed Mineral List:

ⓘ Fluorite
Formula: CaF2

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List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification

Group 3 - Halides
ⓘFluorite3.AB.25CaF2

List of minerals for each chemical element

FFluorine
Fⓘ FluoriteCaF2
CaCalcium
Caⓘ FluoriteCaF2

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Link to USGS MRDS:10014589

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References

MRDS database Dep. ID #10014589, MRDS ID #D011430; Dep. ID #10234755, MAS ID #0040110011.
Allen & Butler (1921) Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 114: 6.
Arizona Bureau of Mines Circular 15 (1950): 2-9.
Meeves, H.C. (1966), Nonpegmatite beryllium occurrences in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and four adjacent states, U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 6828.
USGS & AZ Bur. Mines, and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (1969), Mineral and water resources of Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 180: 349-352.
Elevatorski, E.A. (1971), Arizona Department of Mineral Resources (ADMR), Arizona Fluorspar.
Biggerstaff, B.P. (1974), University of Texas M.S. thesis, 102 pp.
Phillips, Ken A. (1987) Arizona Industrial Minerals - Department of Mines & Minerals Report #4 (2nd ed.). Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resources. 197 pp.
Sawyer, M.B., Gurmendi, A.C., Daley, M.R., and Howell, S.B. (1992) Principal Deposits of Strategic and Critical Minerals in Arizona, U.S. Bureau of Mines Special Publication, 334 pp.
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