Oatman Mining District (Moss Mine area)
35.0994° N, 114.4475° W · ± 10 km
Fluorite from Arizona, United States, with photos of specimens from this locality.
Minerals found here
Fluorite at Oatman Mining District (Moss Mine area)
Fluorite here is a vein-filling gangue mineral in gold-bearing quartz-calcite veins, in places carrying gold.
Photo: Robert M. Lavinsky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
- Formula
- CaF₂
- Morphology
- Stringers and vein-filling within quartz-calcite veins
- Color / luster
- Colorless to pale green
- Availability
- Unknown
- History
- The Moss Mine is a former gold-silver-fluorspar mine; gold was found embedded in fluorite in the upper workings
Geology of the locality
- Setting
- Epithermal gold-silver district in Miocene volcanic rocks of the Black Mountains; simple quartz-calcite-adularia veins, with fluorite as stringers and locally as a gold-bearing gangue mineral, notably in the Moss vein.
- Type
- Hydrothermal
- Host rock
- Andesite, trachyte and quartz monzonite porphyry
- Region
- Arizona
- Country
- United States
Coordinates (35 05 58 N, 114 26 51 W) are for the Moss Mine as given on a Mindat page and are used for the district as an approximation. The photo file page only says Oatman District, so the exact mine of the specimen is not known.
Sources
- SRC-193 · Website
File:Fluorite-52132.jpg (Wikimedia Commons file page)Lavinsky, R.M. (photographer) · 2010 · Wikimedia Commons - SRC-194 · Book
Geology of the Oatman Gold District, Arizona (USGS Bulletin 743)Ransome, F.L. · 1923 · U.S. Geological Survey - SRC-195 · Database
Moss Mine, Gold Road Mining District, Oatman, Arizona (Mindat locality page)Mindat contributors · Mindat.org
Draft data from the Provenite workbook. Check entries against the cited sources before relying on them. Photos are open-licence images from Wikimedia Commons; the author and licence are given with each photo.