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Chase Creek Placers

Producer in Greenlee county in Arizona, United States with commodity Gold
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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. 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. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10026955
MRDS ID M001275
Record type Site
Current site name Chase Creek Placers

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.32121, 33.05982 (WGS84)
Elevation 1097
Relative position AT CLIFTON TO 3 MILES NW, ALONG CREEK.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Greenlee(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Clifton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Francisco(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Greenlee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 004S 029E 23,24,25 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • PLACER MINING WAS CONCENTRTED BETWEEN ROCK HOUSE CANYON AND CLIFTON. GEODETIC AND UTM COORDINATES DESCRIBE THE 3 PATENTED CHASE CREEK PLACER CLAIMS IN THE NW QUARTER OF SECTION 25. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1973)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Gravel Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Surface Oxidation Of Gold-Bearing Veins In The Vicinity

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pleistocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Rock unit name Gila Conglomerate
    Rock description Gila Conglomerate
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.32121, 33.05982
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Fine Flakes Of Gold Recovered From Well-Graded Stream Gravels And From Coarse, Roughly Bedded Gila Conglomerate In The Hills Around Morenci And On The Se Slopes Of Copper King Mountain
Type of structure Local
Structure description Placer Gold Found In Sand Extensively Mixed With Relatively Unconsolidated Gravels Containing Volcanic Rocks, Granite, Limestone, And Quartz Porphyry

Ore body information

  • General form DISPERSED FLAKES IN STREAM GRAVELS

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Elevated Stream Gravels Resting On Gila Conglomerate; Shallow Gullies Of Tributary Canyons

Comments on the geologic information

  • GILA CONGLOMERATE HAS NOT BEEN WARPED OR DISLOCATED BY FAULTING. PLACER GOLD WAS DERIVED FROM OXIDIZED GOLD-BEARING VEINS ASSOCIATTED WITH A PORPHYRY SILL BETWEEN QUARTZITE AND LIMESTONE ON THE RIDGE BETWEEN CHASE CREEK AND MORENCI CANYON.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Copper Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1972, PLACER GOLD DEPOSITS OF ARIZONA: U.S.G.S. BULLETIN 1355, P. 15.

  • Deposit

    BLM DISTRICT SHEET 842.

  • Deposit

    USGS PROF PAPER 43 (1905), P. 75-77, 212.

  • Deposit

    BENNETT, 1975, GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF THE BRECCIAS IN THE MORENCI-METCALF DISTRICT, GREENLEE COUNTY, ARIZONA: M.S. THESIS UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 153 P.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PLACER DEPOSITS COMPRISE 17 PATENTED CLAIMS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1982 Calder, Susan R. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

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