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Thurston and Hardy Mines

Past Producer in Greenlee county in Arizona, United States with commodities Manganese, Barium-Barite
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  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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010056
MRDS ID D003429
Record type Site
Current site name Thurston and Hardy Mines
Alternate or previous names Denton Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.25064, 32.86678 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Greenlee(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ash Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Safford(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Gila-Mangas(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper 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 Greenlee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 007S 030E 34,35 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Barium-Barite Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Psilomelane Ore
Pyrolusite Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 156
USGS model code 25g
Deposit model name Epithermal Mn

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Mining district

District name Ash Peak

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • <2000 LONG TONS RESERVE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JONES AND RANSOME, 1920 P. 130-132.

  • Deposit

    WILSON AND BUTLER, 1930, P. 62-64.

  • Deposit

    FARNHAM, 1961, P. 99- 101.

  • Deposit

    DORR, 1969, P. 217-221.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LENSES IN SHEAR ZONE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1990 Lawrence, V U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1993 Bolm, Karen S. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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