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Knabe No. 4 Mine

Past Producer in Maricopa county in Arizona, United States with commodity Manganese
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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. Production statistics
  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 10027582
MRDS ID M003429
Record type Site
Current site name Knabe No. 4 Mine
Related records 10137943

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.20215, 33.73506 (WGS84)
Elevation 671
Relative position 3 MILES SW OF LITTLE HORN PEAK.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maricopa(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Little Horn Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salome(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Phoenix(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Centennial Wash(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 005N 009W 34,33 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • 3 MILES E OF BIG HORN MOUNTAINS. INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1964)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrolusite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.20215, 33.73506
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form FISSURE FILLINGS, IRREGULAR MASSES, NETWORK OF NARROW SEAMS
    Strike N
    Dip W
    Length 45.72M
    Width 18.29M

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE IN 2 FRACTURE ZONES, MN OXIDES AS FISSURE FILLINGS AND IRREGULAR MASSES AND IN A NETWORK OF NARROW SEAMS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1951
Discoverer Northfleet Knabe

Mining district

District name Aguila District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner F. A. Sitton And J. E. Robinette
  • Type Owner
    Owner Northfleet Knabe
    First year 1958

Production statistics

  • Year 1953
    Period 1952-1953
    Material ORE MN
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^Low Grade, Yielded 1000 To 2000 Tons Of Screened Material Of 15 To 20 Percent Mn
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Ore Manganese Manganese 18wt-pct

Comments on the production information

  • IDLE IN 1954

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.011HA
    Overall length 30.48M
    Overall width 18.29M

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 OPEN PITS EACH 600 SQ FT IN AREA

Comments on development

  • 9 UNPATENTED CLAIMS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FARNHAM, L.L., AND STEWART, L.A., 1958, MN DEPOSITS IN WESTERN ARIZONA, U.S.B.M. INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7843.

  • Deposit

    USBM-FILE DATA-CLUSTER NUMBER 604-KNABE NO. 4 MINE.

  • Deposit

    ALLEN, G.B., 1985, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE BIG HORN MOUNTAINS OF WEST-CENTRAL ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL TECHNOLOGY OPEN-FILE REPORT 85-17, 140 P.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 2 FRACTURE ZONES IN BRECCIATED GRANITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1981 Harner, Joy L. (Peterson, Jo) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1990 Bolm, Karen S. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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