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High Card Mine

Past Producer in Pima county in Arizona, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Molybdenum
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037128
MRDS ID M030517
Record type Site
Current site name High Card Mine
Alternate or previous names Faro Bank Group
Related records 10186560

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.84238, 31.9779 (WGS84)
Elevation 1006
Relative position ABOUT 6 MI NE OF SELLS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pima(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sells East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Sells(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nogales(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Simon Wash(hydrologic unit)

Rio Sonoyta(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sonora(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BIA(Federal land areas administered by BIA)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pima

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 017S 005E 04 SW4 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • ON PAPAGO INDIAN RESERVATION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Secondary
Lead Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Analytical data

Result SOME MO IN ASSAY

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.84238, 31.9779
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Oxidized And Weathered Quartz Veins Along Fissure Zone Cutting Gran Itic Rock

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCED INTERMITTENTLY 1931-1940 A FEW TONS OF ORE AVERAGING 0.9 OZ/T AU, 1.5 OZ/T AG, MINOR CU, PB, ZN

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • IN 1942 MRS HOLMES CLAIMED ABOUT 6 FT OF ORE RUNNING 1% OR BETTER M 002 WITH GOLD IN HANGING WALL. A LATER INDEPENDENT REPORT SAYS GOLD IS PRINCIPAL MINERAL AND MENTIONS NO OTHERS.

Comments on the workings information

  • SHALLOW SHAFTS & TUNNELS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KEITH, 1974, ABM BULL 189

  • Deposit

    BRYNER, 1959, PHD THESIS, UNIV OF AZ, 156 P

  • Deposit

    ADMR, 1962

  • Deposit

    ABM FILE DATA

  • Production

    KEITH, 1974

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS REPORT WAS TAKEN FROM RECORD M030517 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENU M FILE, CONTACT PERSON T.G. THEODORE, USGS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1983 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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