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Garnet Mountain

Past Producer in Mohave 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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  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 10027707
MRDS ID M003899
Record type Site
Current site name Garnet Mountain
Alternate or previous names G.T. Duncan

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.03136, 35.79362 (WGS84)
Elevation 1920
Relative position AT GARNET MTN., ABOUT 42 AIR MILES N OF KINGMAN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mohave(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Garnet Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Boulder City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Kingman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Red Lake(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(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 Mohave

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 028N 016W 19 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ANALYTICAL DATA, USBM, 1942 , 5 SAMPLES.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore

Analytical data

Result 0.01 TO 0.36% WO3.

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.03136, 35.79362
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fault, N 20 W, 82 Ne

Ore body information

  • Strike EW
    Dip 90
    Length 15.24M
    Width 1.83M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Located Along Contact Between Granite And Quartz-Garnet-Epidote Mass

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years PRIOR TO 1942

Mining district

District name Garnet Mtn. District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • SMALL UNRECORDED PRODUCTION.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 15.24M
    Overall length 7.62M
    Overall width 1.83M

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN CUT IS 20 FEET HIGH.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DALE, V.B., 1961, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF GILA, YAVAPAI, AND MOHAVE COUNTIES, ARIZ.: U.S.B.M. I.C. 8078, P. 99-100.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S.: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MAP MR-25.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE EXPOSURE WAS 15 FT BY 30 FT AND ESTIMATED TO CONTAIN 1.5% WO3.
Deposit THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD D000777 OF J.E. ELLIOTT 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-1979 Johnson, Kris H. (Creasey, S.C.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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