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North Star and Money Maker Prospect

Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodity Tungsten
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027578
MRDS ID M003414
Record type Site
Current site name North Star and Money Maker Prospect
Alternate or previous names What-A-Pal
Related records 10186693

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.28963, 34.26949 (WGS84)
Elevation 1433
Relative position 3.5 MILES NE OF CROWN KING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Battle Flat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bradshaw Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Prescott(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Agua Fria(hydrologic unit)

Lower Gila-Agua Fria(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Prescott 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 Yavapai

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 011N 001E 29 NW Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION BASED ON DIRECTIONS GIVEN IN DALE AND LOCATION GIVEN IN USBM FILES

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Yavapai Schist
    Rock description Yavapai Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.28963, 34.26949
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR, LENTICULAR
    Thickness 6.1M
    Length 6437.2M
    Width 1609.3M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THIS PROPERTY IS AT THE SOUTHWEST END OF A WIDE MINERALIZED ZONE WHICH STRIKES N 40 W FOR 3 OR 4 MILES. THIS SCHEELITE MINERALIZATION IS SPORADIC OVER AN AREA ABOUT 1 MILE WIDE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1953
Discoverer Ben Scott; R.P. Mcleod
Year of first production 1953
Year of last production 1958

Mining district

District name Money Maker District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Scott, Ben And Mc Leod, R. P.
    First year 1961

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION INCLUDES WHAT-A-PAL CLAIM.

Comments on the workings information

  • SHALLOW PITS AND OPENCUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DALE, V.B., 1961, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF GILA, YAVAPAI, MOHAVE COUNTIES, ARIZONA: U.S.B.M. INFORMATION CIRCULAR 8078, P. 25.

  • Deposit

    SAWYER, M.B., GURMENDI, A.C., DALEY, M.R., AND HOWELL, S.B., 1992, PRINCIPAL DEPOSITS OF STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MINERALS IN ARIZONA: UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES SPECIAL PUBLICATION, 334 P.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Production

    U.S.B.M. I.C. 8078 , P. 25.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SPORADIC SCHEELITE DEPOSITS FOUND OVER MAXIMUM AREA OF OREBODY.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1979 Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1982 Roth, Frances A. (Dewitt, Ed) Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology
Updater 01-FEB-1994 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

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

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