Bilge Pump, New Year, Toro Prospects

Occurrence in Maricopa county in Arizona, United States with commodity Iron
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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048189
MRDS ID M800257
Record type Site
Current site name Bilge Pump, New Year, Toro Prospects
Related records 10234502

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.16962, 33.99478 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position JUST NORTH OF BIG BOULDER DEPOSIT, Utm Located On Boundary Between Sections 32 & 33

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Maricopa(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

New River(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Phoenix North(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Phoenix(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Agua Fria(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 Maricopa

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 008N 002E 32,33 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Goethite Ore
Hematite Ore
Turgite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.16962, 33.99478

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form SCATTERED CLUSTERS
    Dip 50 N TO VERT.
    Thickness 15.24M
    Length 3218.6M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1957
Discoverer T. Collins, M.W. Rollins, And Others

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HARRER, USBM IC 8236, 1964, P.71

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1956-1959

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-82 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Arizona resources

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