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Roadside 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. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027584
MRDS ID M003432
Record type Site
Current site name Roadside Mine
Related records 10137818

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.20326, 33.76062 (WGS84)
Elevation 732
Relative position 2.5 MILES NW 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

Tiger Well(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 21 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • AT THE N EDGE OF BIG HORN MTS. INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1978)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrolusite Ore
Calcite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.20326, 33.76062
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form VEINLETS, SEAMS
    Length 91.44M
    Width 9.14M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1952
Discoverer J.N. House

Mining district

District name Aguila District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Frank Mcelrath
    First year 1954

Comments on the production information

  • APPARENTLY A SMALL PRODUCTION FROM EARLY OPERATORS

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 9.14M
    Overall width 1.83M

Comments on the workings information

  • EXPLORATORY WORK WAS GETTING UNDERWAY IN 1954, DATE OF REFERENCE'S INFORMATION; OPEN CUT 10 FEET DEEP.

Comments on development

  • OPERATORS INCLUDED: FRANK MCELRATH AND ASSOCIATES, HARQUAHALA MILLING CO. PROPERTY INCLUDES 5 UNPATENTED CLAIMS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FARNHAM, L.L., AND STEWART, L.A., 1958, MN DEPOSITS IN WESTERN ARIZONA: U.S.B.M. INFO. CIRC. 7843.

  • Deposit

    USBM-FILE DATA-CLUSTER NUMBER 604-ROADSIDE MINE

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 2 FRACTURE ZONES. MN MINERALS OCCUR AS VEINLETS AND SEAMS SURROUNDING THE PARTLY REPLACED IN BRECCIATED FRAGMENTS OF ANDESITE.

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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Authoritative Arizona resources

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