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Black Burro Mine

Past Producer in Mohave county in Arizona, United States with commodities Manganese, Uranium
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046350
MRDS ID M241481
Record type Site
Current site name Black Burro Mine
Related records 10138020

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.74884, 34.25338 (WGS84)
Elevation 390
Relative position ABOUT 4.4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FOOLS PEAK.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mohave(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rawhide Wash(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Alamo Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Prescott(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Bill Williams(hydrologic unit)

Bill Williams(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 Mohave

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 011N 014W 31 CENTER OF E2 OF E2 Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1979)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Uranium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Psilomelane Ore
Pyrolusite Ore

Analytical data

Result ORE RUNS 820 LONG TONS AT 18% MN AND 29 TONS AT 0.01% U308

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.74884, 34.25338
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES, DISSEMINATED
    Strike E
    Dip 15 TO 30 S
    Width 2.44M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1952
Discoverer William D. Goyn
Year of first production 1952
Year of last production 1955

Mining district

District name Black Burro District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Goyn, William D.
    First year 1955

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN CUTS AND OPEN STOPES ADJACENT TO TWO INCLINED SHAFTS

Comments on development

  • 3 UNPATENTED CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM I.C. 7843, 1958, P. 54

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MANGANESE ORES DISSEMINATED THROUGHOUT SANDSTONE BED WITH SOME ENRICHMENT ALONG FRACTURES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1982 Roth, Frances A. (Gest, Don E.) Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology
Updater 01-MAY-1995 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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