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Honey Bee No. 4 Claim

Occurrence in Pinal county in Arizona, United States with commodities Uranium, Copper
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026802
MRDS ID M000336
Record type Site
Current site name Honey Bee No. 4 Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.0243, 33.08315 (WGS84)
Elevation 732
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 2 MILES SW OF KELVIN, To Center Section 16. Not Indicated On Map

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pinal(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Grayback(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Gila(hydrologic unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pinal

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 004S 013E 16 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1965)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Copper Primary

Analytical data

Result GRAB SAMPLE CONTAINED .021 PERCENT U, AVERAGE PROBABLY LOWER

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.0243, 33.08315
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • PETROGRAPHIC CLASSIFICATION OF THE DIKES WAS NOT DETERMINED.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Kelvin Area

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Leo Wall Of Ray, And I.D. Hollenbeck Of Kelvin
    First year 1951

Comments on the workings information

  • NO WORKINGS INFO AVAILABLE

Comments on development

  • ORIGINALLY WORKED FOR COPPER, NO DATA AVAILABLE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GRANGER, H.C., AND RAUP R.B., 1962, RECONNAISSANCE STUDY OF URANIUM DEPOSITS IN ARIZONA, US GEOL. SURV. BULL 1147-A, P. A-38

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PORPHYRY DIKE IS RADIOACTIVE FOR ABOUT 200 FEET, U ASSOCIATED WITH THE FE OXIDES; 2 FOOT ZONE OF FE STAINED ROCK ALONG THE HANGING WALL OF THE MATIC DIKE IS RADIOACTIVE FOR 200 YARDS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-81 Harner, Joy L. (Peterson, Jo) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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