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Oro Fino Placers

Past Producer in La Paz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Tungsten, Iron
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027896
MRDS ID M004390
Record type Site
Current site name Oro Fino Placers
Related records 10282739

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.35385, 33.64284 (WGS84)
Elevation 366
Relative position IN THE VICINITY OF THE QUARTSITE-BLYTHE HIGHWAY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

La Paz(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Middle Camp Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Blythe(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salton Sea(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Tyson Wash(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado(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 004N 020W 31,32 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Lead Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Hematite Gangue

Analytical data

Result AVERAGED 38 CENTS PER CUBIC YARD

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.35385, 33.64284
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 5.49M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Here The Gold-Bearing Material Consisted Of Unconsolidated Rock Debris, Up To Twelve Feet Thick, And An Underlying Cemented Gravel Eighteen Or More Feet Thick

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Middle Camp District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, G.M.; 1937; ARIZONA GOLD PLACERS AND PLACERING; ARIZ. B.M. BULLETIN 142, P. 30

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, G.M.; 1952; ARIZONA GOLD PLACERS AND PLACERING; ARIZ. B.M. BULLETIN 160; P. 30

  • Deposit

    ELSING, M.J.; HEINEMAN, R.E.S.; ARIZONA METAL PRODUCTION: ARIZ. B.M. BULLETIN 140, P. 104

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.G.; 1972; PLACER GOLD DEPOSITS OF ARIZONA: U.S.G.S. BULLETIN 1355, P. 78

  • Production

    A.B.M. BULLETIN 140, P. 104. (9, 10) KEITH, S.B., 1978.

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

Beyond USGS

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

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