Daniels Camp

Past Producer in Greenlee county in Arizona, United States with commodities Fluorine-Fluorite, Manganese, Beryllium
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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014589
MRDS ID D011430
Record type Site
Current site name Daniels Camp
Related records 10234755

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.08814, 32.85705 (WGS84)
Relative position 12 MILES N OF DUNCAN, 2.5 MI EAST OF AZ-NM STATE LINE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Greenlee(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Goat Camp Spring(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 032E 05 NE4 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1992)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Manganese Critical Secondary
Beryllium Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.08814, 32.85705

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 3M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fracturing, Faulting

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1918

Mining district

District name Steeple Rock District, Duncan District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BIGGERSTAFF, B.P., 1974, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M.S. THESIS, 102 P.

  • Deposit

    MEEVES, H.C., 1966, US BUREAU OF MINES REPORT OF INVESTIGATION RI-6828.

  • Deposit

    US BUREAU OF MINES COMPUTER DATA BANK, 1978.

  • Deposit

    US BUREAU OF MINES COMPUTER DATA BANK, 1979, MINERALS AVAILIBILITY SYSTEM.

  • Deposit

    SAWYER, M.B., GURMENDI, A.C., DALEY, M.R., AND HOWELL, S.B., 1992, PRINCIPAL DEPOSITS OF STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MINERALS IN ARIZONA: UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES SPECIAL PUBLICATION, 334 P.

  • Deposit

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

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MEDIUM- TO COARSE-GRAINED, COLORLESS OR GREEN FLUORITE AS LENSES IN VEINS OF DENSE, MASSIVE, BANDED QUARTZ CUTTING TERTIARY VOLCANICS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1984 Davies, Robert C. (Worl, Ron) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1993 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Arizona resources

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