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Stony Peak Prospect

Past Producer in Graham county in Arizona, United States with commodities Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026885
MRDS ID M000778
Record type Site
Current site name Stony Peak Prospect
Alternate or previous names Stoney Peak Claim No. 6
Related records 10282406

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.7951, 32.55428 (WGS84)
Elevation 1676
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 10 MILES SE OF FORT GRANT, Unsurveyed Land

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Graham(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Stockton Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Safford(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Silver City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Gila-San Carlos Reservoir(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Coronado National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Graham

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 010S 025E 21 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • AUTUNITE, URANOPHANE, FLUORITE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Uranophane Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Some Hematitic-Chloritic Alteration

Analytical data

Result BETA-GAMMA RATIO ASSAYS: 0.14 % U3O8 , 0.27 % U3O8

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR STRINGERS
    Length 30.48M
    Width 4.57M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • POSSIBLY A FEW HUNDRED TONS OF ORE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.009HA

Comments on the workings information

  • SURFACE EXPOSURE BY BLASTING, SMALL PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PRELIMINARY RECONNAISSANCE FOR URANIUM IN GRAHAM, GRANT, GREENLEE, AND MARICOPA COUNTIES, ARIZONA, 1950 TO 1957 : US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION, RME-157 , P. 21 .

  • Deposit

    PEIRCE, H. W., KEITH, S. B., AND WILT, J. C., 1970, ABM BULL. 182, P. 103-146.

  • Deposit

    DMEA 4666

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-79 Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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