Rowley Mine

Past Producer in Maricopa county in Arizona, United States with commodities Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum, Semiprecious Gemstone, Barium-Barite, Vanadium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008298
MRDS ID D000321
Record type Site
Current site name Rowley Mine
Alternate or previous names Reliance, Rawley, Theba, Rainbow
Related records 10137899

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.02492, 33.04897 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 28 MI NW OF GILA BEND.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maricopa(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dendora Valley(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Little Horn Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Phoenix(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Gila-Painted Rock Reservoir(hydrologic unit)

Lower Gila-Agua Fria(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management AZ)

Bureau of Land Management AZ BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Maricopa

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 004S}004S 008W}007W 30,31}24,25,36 NE (25) Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1964)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary
Molybdenum Secondary
Semiprecious Gemstone Secondary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • BEAUTIFUL WULFENITE CRYSTALS HAVE BEEN PRODUCED. OFTEN THE WULFENITE CRYSTALS HAVE DECORATIVE RED BALLS OF MIMETITE. THE SULFENITE IS LARGELY HEMIMORPHIC.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Chalcocite Ore
Covellite Ore
Galena Ore
Hematite Ore
Malachite Ore
Wulfenite Ore
Mimetite Gangue
Barite Unknown

Alteration

  • (Local) Alteration Products Of Massive Sulfides In Barite Vein

Analytical data

Result QUARTZ VEIN AVERAGES LESS THAN 1% CU, 1 OZ/T AG, TRACE AU. BARITE VEIN CONTAINS LESS THAN 1% PB AND LESS THAN 1% MO03.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.02492, 33.04897

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description 4000 Ft Fault Zone N 30-37 W With Quartz Vein On Footwall And Barite Vein On Hanging Wall; Ne-Sw Sheared Zone Which May Represent A Fault With Tert Volcanics To Nw And Prec Schist To Se.

Ore body information

  • Strike N 30-37 W
    Dip 37-50 E
    Length 112.78M
    Width 9.14M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • In Quartz Veins Cutting Andesite

Comments on the geologic information

  • ANDESITE ALSO REPORTED AS CRET.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1900
Year of last production 1923

Mining district

District name Painted Rock District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Chief Products Ltd.
    Home office Los Angeles, Ca
    First year 1957
  • Type Owner
    Owner Rowley, Charles A.
    First year 1970

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 563.88M
    Overall depth 85.34M

Comments on the workings information

  • 292 FT INCLINED SHAFT, 700 FT CROSSCUTS & DRIFTS. MAIN VERTICAL S HAFT 280 FT DEEP (1918). 160 FT INCLINED SHAFT NOW BACKFILLED TO 100 F T LEVEL. WATER AND BACKFILL IN MINE NOW TO 100 FT LEVEL.

Comments on development

  • OPERATORS INCLUDED RELIANCE MINING CO AND SAN CARLOS COPPER MINES CO (1927), 11 CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILSON & MILLER, 1974, MINERAL RECORD, V. 5, P. 10-30.

  • Deposit

    THE MINES HANDBOOK & COPPER HANDBOOK, V. XII-XIV, 1916-1924.

  • Deposit

    STEWART AND PFISTER, 1960, USBM RI 5651, P. 41-44.

  • Deposit

    ADMR FILE DATA.

  • Deposit

    SCARBOROUGH, 1981, ABGMT, UNPUB RECONN MAPPING.

  • Deposit

    PHILLIPS, K.A., 1987, ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL REPORT 4, 185 P.

  • Deposit

    PEIRCE, H.W., 1990, ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INDUSTRIAL MINERALS CARD FILES.

  • Deposit

    BLAIR, GERRY, 1992, THE ROCKHOUND'S GUIDE TO ARIZONA: HELENA, MONTANA, FALCON PRESS, 165 P.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEIN IS 5 FT WIDE FOR 370 FT AT 125 FT LEVEL WITH NO GOUGE ON FOOTWALL. BARITE VEIN ON HANGING WALL RANGES FROM 15-30 FT THICK WITH GOUGE SEPARATING IT FROM FRACTURED ANDESITE.
Deposit THIS REPORT REPRESENTS A MERGER OF ORIGINAL RECORD D000321 WITH RECORD M001909 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEODORE, USGS. THIS RECORD ALSO CONTAINS DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD D003609 OF J.W. HASLER AND TC10329 OF WELLS WHICH HAVE BEEN DELETED FROM MAIN MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit 6 PATENTED CLAIMS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-83 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-92 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey PARSED HOST ROCK AND ASSOCIATED ROCK INFORMATION FROM OLD SINGLE VALUED FIELD TO NEW MULTIVALUED FIELD
Editor 27-APR-95 Mosier, Dan U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references

Authoritative Arizona resources

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