Since production of fluorspar began in northern Coahuila, Mexico, in 1950-51, thousands of tons of high-grade ore have been mined from numerous deposits situated 5 to 75 miles south of the Rio Grande.

The West Chinati stock, well exposed in San Antonio Canyon and immediately westward on slopes of the southwestern part of the Chinati Mountains, Presidio County, Texas, is a large stocklike body of porphyritic hornblende granite cut by numerous dikes and irregular-shaped plutons of rhyolite, rhyo

Fluorspar is a basic raw material used in the chemical, metallurgical, and ceramic industries. This handbook describes the occurrence, grades, geology, uses, and prospects for development of fluorspar in Texas.

Rocks exposed in the Cathedral Mountain quadrangle in the southeastern DavisMountains of Trans-Pecos Texas are assigned to the Word formation and to Capitan limestone in the Permian Guadalupe series; to the Maxon sandstone, Edwards limestone, Georgetown limestone, and Grayson (Del Rio) marl in th