Golden Eagle Mine

Producer in Gila county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold
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. 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. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046314
MRDS ID M241220
Record type Site
Current site name Golden Eagle Mine
Alternate or previous names Show Me Copper Co. Mine
Related records 10137064

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.86402, 33.43119 (WGS84)
Elevation 1158
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 1 MI NE OF MOONSHINE HILL, Utm Measured To Position Of A Group Of Adit Symbols In E/2 Sec 18

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Gila(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Globe(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Globe(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Salt(hydrologic unit)

Salt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Salt(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 Gila

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 001N 015E 18 CENTER OF E2 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Hematite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Lost Gulch Quartz Monzonite
    Rock description Lost Gulch Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Pinal Schist
    Rock description Pinal Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) Holocene surficial deposits

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Nne Trending Miami Fault; Mine Is W Of Fault, Where Lost Gulch Quartz Monzonite Intrudes Into Pinal Schist
Type of structure Local
Structure description Mine Nw Of Miami Fault, Nw Oriented Contact Between Pinal Schist To S And Lost Gulch Quartz Monzonite To ;North

Ore body information

  • Strike NE
    Dip VERTICAL
    Length 91.44M
    Width 3.66M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ne Trending Fault Zone - Miami Fault , Veins In Schist Directly W Of Fault

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1878
Year of first production 1878
Year of last production 1937

Mining district

District name Miami-Inspiration District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Amico Mining Corp (Anaconda)
    First year 1947
  • Type Owner
    Owner Strode, J. W.
    First year 1939

Comments on the production information

  • ABGMT-USBM PRODUCTION DATA ONLY INCLUDES 1930'S. DOES NOT INCLUDE 1878-1900 WHEN THE MAJOR PRODUCT WAS GOLD

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 609.6M
    Overall depth 53.34M

Comments on the workings information

  • TUNNEL OF 1000 FT IN LENGTH AS WELL AS 3 WINZES AND A SHAFT EXTENDING DOWN FROM THE TUNNEL; AT ONE TIME THERE WAS ALSO A SMALL PIT

Comments on development

  • CONSISTS OF 2 UNPATENTED CLAIMS. PREVIOUSLY OWNED BY FRANK THOMPSON (1916), AND AT ONE TIME OWNED BY SHOW ME COPPER CO. NO PRODUCTION REPORTED 1901-1934

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILES

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    ADMR FILE DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TWO PARALLEL VEINS IN FISSURE ZONES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-82 Roth, Frances A. (Gest, Don E.) Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Arizona resources

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