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Adams Prospect

Occurrence in La Paz county in Arizona, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027605
MRDS ID M003496
Record type Site
Current site name Adams Prospect
Related records 10234400

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.48993, 33.38563 (WGS84)
Elevation 512
Relative position EAST OF DEADMAN TANK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

La Paz(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Eagletail Mountains West(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Little Horn Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Phoenix(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Gila(hydrologic unit)

Lower Gila(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 La Paz

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 001N 012W 34 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Hematite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) In Places, The Granite Porphyry Is Silicified And Marked By Copper Stain

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.48993, 33.38563
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Here, A Northwestward-Trending Dike Of Fine-Grained Granite Porphyry, About Eighty Feet Wide Is Cut By A Fault That Strikes Northeast, And Dips Steeply Northwest

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Eagle Tail District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A SHALLOW SHAFT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILSON, E.D.; 1933; GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF SOUTHERN YUMA COUNTY, ARIZONA: ARIZ. B.M. BULLETIN 134, P. 143

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1972 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1979 Hall, R. K. (Creasey, S. C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1990 Bolm, Karen S. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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