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Raven Group

Producer in Gila county in Arizona, United States with commodities Silver, Copper, Gold, Lead
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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. Ownership information
  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 10046324
MRDS ID M241233
Record type Site
Current site name Raven Group
Alternate or previous names Silver Lake, Windy Hill, Silver Plume, Apache
Related records 10112674

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.75486, 33.52925 (WGS84)
Elevation 1585
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 2 MILES NNE OF NUGGET MOUNTAIN, GLOBE 7.5 MIN QUAD, From Usbm And Mils Data

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Gila(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rockinstraw Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Seneca(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

Tonto National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Gila

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 002N 15E 11 W OF CENTER Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • 1/2 MILE E OF RICHMOND BASIN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Copper Secondary
Gold Secondary
Lead Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Troy Quartzite;Pioneer Formation
    Rock description Troy Quartzite;Pioneer Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.75486, 33.52925
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Nw Trending Faults In Precambrian Rock, With Shorter E-W Cross Faults. Deposit Overlain By Tertiary Gila Conglomerate

Ore body information

  • Width 4.57M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Between Diabase And Limestone And/Or Quartzite

Comments on the geologic information

  • NO DETAILED MAP OTHER THAN O.M. BISHOP, 1935, WHO DOES NOT LOCATE THE WINDY HILL MINE. MINERALIZATION RELATED TO LCRET-TERT DIABASE INTRUSIONS AND ASSOCIATED FAULTING

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1922
Year of last production 1941

Mining district

District name Richmond Basin District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Newbould Brothers
    Home office Globe, Az
    First year 1946

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 38.1M

Comments on the workings information

  • 125 FT SHAFT, AND TWO OTHER SHAFTS 50 AND 80 FT. SMALL AMOUNTS OF DRIFTING AND STOPING. A 100 FT TUNNEL WAS CALLED THE WINDY HILL MINE, SAME OPERATOR AS RAVEN, 1933.

Comments on development

  • 13 CLAIMS IN 1946, SILVER LAKE GROUP, 2 CLAIMS ARE CALLED RAVEN

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA

  • Deposit

    ADMR RAVEN FILE AND WINDY HILL FILE

  • Deposit

    BISHOP, O. M., 1935 GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE RICHMOND BASIN AREA, GILA COUNTY. UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, M. S. THESIS

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MAIN N-S VEIN IS 10 TO 30 FT WIDE. BEST ASSAYS IN A 6 INCH WIDE PORTION MINED WIDTH APROXIMATELY 4 FT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-82 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.

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