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Franklin D Mine

Past Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Silver
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048159
MRDS ID M800208
Record type Site
Current site name Franklin D Mine
Alternate or previous names Golden Gate Group
Related records 10210469

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.58658, 34.04256 (WGS84)
Elevation 1097
Relative position 2.65 MILES SOUTHWEST OFF MORGAN BUTTE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Morgan Butte(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bradshaw Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Prescott(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hassayampa(hydrologic unit)

Lower Gila-Agua Fria(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Gila(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 Yavapai

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 008N 003W 8;17 SE OF SE OF SE (08); NE OF NE OF NE (17) Arizona

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION OF MINE WAS BASED ON ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CAMP B MINE. LOCATION TAKEN TO SHAFT SYMBOL NORTH OF CAMP B MINE 1 MILE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Minor To None

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) Early Proterozoic granitic rocks
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Foliation In Precambrian Schist And Gneiss Trends N25e To N65e
Type of structure Local
Structure description Veins (And Genetically - Related (?)) Dikes Trend N10w To N40w And Crosscut Precambrian Fabric

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Length 45.72M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting, Shearing, Igneous Activity-Dikes

Comments on the geologic information

  • DEPOSIT IS HIGH-ANGLE QUARTZ VEIN WHICH IS ASSOCIATED WITH RHYOLITE OR ANDESITE DIKES OF PROBABLE MID-TERTIARY AGE THAT CUT PRECAMBRIAN IGNEOUS AND METAMORPHIC ROCKS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1943
Year of last production 1960

Mining district

District name Black Rock District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Murphy, Garcia, Oberan Golden Gate Mining Co. , Baker And White
    First year 1936
  • Type Owner
    Owner N. Oberan (1936

Comments on the workings information

  • MAIN SHAFT OF UNKNOWN DEPT.

Comments on development

  • CLAIMS, ALL UNPATENTED, ARE THE ALBERT GROUP AND THE GOLDEN GATE GROUP. MAIN SHAFT OF FRANKLIN D IS ON ALBERT NO. 5 UNPATENTED CLAIM

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABGMT CLIPPINGS. FILE DATA.

  • Deposit

    AZ DEPT MIN RES FILE DATA.

  • Deposit

    USBM-ABGMT FILE DATA.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1981 Roth, Frances A. (Dewitt, Ed) 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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