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Red Cloud Prospect

Occurrence in Maricopa county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027087
MRDS ID M001972
Record type Site
Current site name Red Cloud Prospect
Related records 10186269

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.84547, 33.83784 (WGS84)
Elevation 671
Relative position 3 MILES N OF THE TOWN OF VULTURE, 9 MILES SW OF WICKENBURG

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maricopa(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Vulture Mine(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Phoenix North(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Phoenix(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hassayampa(hydrologic unit)

Lower Gila-Agua Fria(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower 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 Maricopa

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 006N 006W 25 N2 OF NW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • IN RED CLOUD WASH ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Pyrite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Vein Oxidized At 200 Ft

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.84547, 33.83784
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N30E
    Dip VERT
    Width 1.83M

Comments on the geologic information

  • DIKES IN THE AREA MAY BE RHYOLITE (AZ GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY DIGEST VOL. XII), DIORITE CADMR "DUFFY CLAIMS"), OR ANDESITE CUSBM IC 6991)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Vulture District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Red Cloud Mining Co.
    First year 1938

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 140.21M
    Overall depth 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 COMPARTMENT SHAFT WITH LEVELS AT 85, 200, AND 300 FEET

Comments on development

  • SEVERAL UNPATENTED CLAIMS PROPERTY PROBABLY PART OF A GROUP OF CLAIMS WORKED BY A.B. "DUFFY" BOIARSKY AS PLACER DEPOSITS IN 1965

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    METZGER, O.H., 1938, GOLD MINING AND MILLING IN THE WICKENBURG AREA, MARICOPA AND YAVAPI COUNTIES, ARIZ., USBM INF. CIRC. 6991

  • Deposit

    ADMR FILE DATA (DUFFY CLAIMS)

  • Deposit

    AZ GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY DIGEST, VOL. XII, MAY 1980,

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WORK DISCONTINUED DUE TO LACK OF CAPITAL. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1981 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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