1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Alyce Tolino Mine

Past Producer in Coconino county in Arizona, United States with commodities Uranium, Molybdenum
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
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. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027271
MRDS ID M002678
Record type Site
Current site name Alyce Tolino Mine
Alternate or previous names Max Johnson No. 9

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.35573, 35.85558 (WGS84)
Elevation 1280
Relative position 1 MI N OF TANNERS CROSSING OVER LITTLE COLORADO RIVER, 2 MI E OF CAMERON.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Coconino(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cameron SE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Cameron(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Flagstaff(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Little Colorado(hydrologic unit)

Little Colorado(hydrologic accounting unit)

Little Colorado(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BIA(Federal land areas administered by BIA)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Coconino

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 029N 009E 24,26 CENTER OF E (24) Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Ilsemannite Ore
Umohoite Ore
Uraninite Ore
Uranophane Ore
Zippeite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Gypsum Gangue
Jarosite Gangue
Kaolin Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Halo Of Jarosite, Hydrous Fe-Oxides, Sericitized Feldspars, And Increase In Traces Of Molybdenum Near Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
    Rock unit name Lower Petrified Forest Member Of Chinle Formation
    Rock description Lower Petrified Forest Member Of Chinle Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.35573, 35.85558
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENS-LIKE
    Length 60.96M
    Width 30.48M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Carbonaceous Material; Highest U Content Along Fault In Channel Which May Have Provided Passage For Solutions Up Through The Shinarump Member.

Comments on the geologic information

  • A SERIES OF FLOWING SPRINGS ISSUE FROM BOTTOM OF MINE ALONG A FAULT LINE WHICH TRAVERSED THE PIT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Comments on the production information

  • A FEW THOUSAND TONS PRODUCED

Comments on the workings information

  • MOSTLY OPEN PIT, WITH RANGES OF 10-125 FT STRIPPING. MAXIMUM DEPTH OF 140 FT. VERY FEW ADITS, SHAFTS, AND UNDERGROUND ROOMS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KEITH, 1970, ARIZ. BUREAU OF MINES BULL 182, P. 103-159, 202-289.

  • Deposit

    BOLLIN & KERR, 1958, GUIDEBOOK FOR N. MEX. GEOL. SOC. 9TH FIELD CONFERENCE, P. 164-168.

  • Deposit

    HINCKLEY, 1957, M.S. THESIS, UNIV. OF UTAH, 67 P.

  • Deposit

    ISACHSEN & EVENSEN, 1956, USGS PP 300, P. 263-280.

  • Deposit

    HAMILTON, P., AND KERR, P., 1959, UMOHOITE FROM CAMERON, ARIZONA: AMERICA MINERALIZED.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    KEITH, 1970, P. 221

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS RECORD REPRESENTS A MERGER OF ORIGINAL RECORD M002678 WITH RECORD M030425 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE; CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEODORE, USGS. THIS RECORD ALSO CONTAINS DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD D000311 OF R.U. KING WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MAIN MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1983 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Arizona resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.