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Wilson Prospect, Red Hill District, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, USAi
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
31° 34' 53'' North , 108° 39' 12'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Nearest Settlements:
PlacePopulationDistance
Animas237 (2011)43.4km
Rodeo101 (2015)45.6km
Mindat Locality ID:
34640
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:34640:0
GUID (UUID V4):
0


Structure: Ne Trending Winkler Anticline Ne Trending U-Bar Fault

Alteration: Silicification

Tectonics: Basin And Range

Deposit: Fluorspar occurs on an outcrop of jasperoid in the cretaceous u-bar formation (limestone), bordering, and immediately south of the u-bar fault. Fluorspar bearing jasperoid, similar in all respects to the athena prospects, crops out over an area of about 70,000 sq ft on the SE dip slope of a massive limestone unit in the cretaceous u-bar formation. Bulldozer trenching and scalping in this area exposed sizable pods of high-grade, coarsely crystalline fluorspar, and several zones of strongly fluoritized silicified breccia. Much of the information for the wilson prospect was inferred from descriptions of the athena prospects due to their similarity and proximity to each other. ; info.src : 1 pub lit

Rock formation(s): Walnut Wells Stock
U-Bar


Ore(s): Brecciated Jasperoid Replacement Mantos Along The U-Bar Fault And Bedding Planes In Limestone

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5 valid minerals.

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Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts
Pyrite2.EB.05aFeS2
Group 3 - Halides
Fluorite3.AB.25CaF2
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides
Quartz4.DA.05SiO2
Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates
Calcite5.AB.05CaCO3
Malachite5.BA.10Cu2(CO3)(OH)2

List of minerals for each chemical element

HHydrogen
H MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2
CCarbon
C CalciteCaCO3
C MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2
OOxygen
O CalciteCaCO3
O MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2
O QuartzSiO2
FFluorine
F FluoriteCaF2
SiSilicon
Si QuartzSiO2
SSulfur
S PyriteFeS2
CaCalcium
Ca CalciteCaCO3
Ca FluoriteCaF2
FeIron
Fe PyriteFeS2
CuCopper
Cu MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)2

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