Burrows Prospect

Past Producer in Mohave county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper
Sections on this page
  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027950
MRDS ID M004625
Record type Site
Current site name Burrows Prospect
Alternate or previous names Bagg, Young, Pauly Mines

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.55276, 35.73973 (WGS84)
Elevation 914
Relative position 9 1/2 MILES E-NE OF NELSON LANDING, NEV., 2.6 MILES W OF U.S. 93 .

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mohave(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mohave Mine(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Boulder City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Kingman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Detrital Wash(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 027N 021W 08 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Silver Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.55276, 35.73973

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1892 - 1906

Mining district

District name El Dorado Pass District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, F. C., 1909 , MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CERBAT RANGE, BLACK MOUNTAINS AND GRAND WASH CLIFFS, MOHAVE COUNTY, ARIZONA: U.S.G.S. BULL. 397

  • Deposit

    ELSING, M.J., 1936 , ARIZONA METAL PRODUCTION: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 140

  • Production

    ARIZ. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 140 , P. 96

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD AND SILVER IN QUARTZ-HEMATITE VEINS OF ALL LOCATIONS, EXCEPT PAULY : COPPER ALONG CONTACT OF PREC. GNEISS AND TERT. VOLCANICS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1979 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1981 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.

Authoritative Arizona resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.