FLUORSPAR/FLUORITE

Fluorspar is the ore from which the pure mineral fluorite (calcium fluoride) can be obtained. The mineral can be used in the production of steel, aluminum and high octane gasoline.
 

	Specimen: TMM 3384 Mineral: Fluorspar Locality: Eagle Mtns., Hudspeth County, Texas Collector: Glen Evans  Specimen is about 7"x5"
Enlarged portion of the specimen.

Fluorspar deposits are found in the Eagle Mountains and Quitman Mountains of Hudspeth County, and in parts of Presidio and El Paso Counties.

Evans, G. L., 1943, Fluorspar Deposits in the Eagle Mountains of Hudspeth County, Mineral Resource Circular #26, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, 10 pp

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